When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

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.

A busy life is often full of nonsense but empty of essence.

To find the deep meaning of life, you must get lost in the blue sky and go beyond your comfort zone.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.