We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?

Don't worry that children never listen to you worry that they are always watching you.

I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

I embrace everybody for who and what they are.

I've been at stand-up 26 years now: After a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

I think the best partner for you is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.