To avoid all possibility for error is to avoid all possibility for growth.

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.

We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.

Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

You can't save souls in an empty church.

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.

What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.