The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!

Demonstrating integrity is indispensable for leaders.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Canadian bacon isn't bacon. It's ham.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.