We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.

Your life can never be a complicated journey without you being the one complicating it.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.