The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.

You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

I had a whole bag full. And I still felt like I didn't have enough! Definitely more bikinis then you have days of vacation.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.