"Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul."
"You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!"
"Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to."
"Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order."
"The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it."
"The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change."
"Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves."
"One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned."
"You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves."
"When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission."
"To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus."
"Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit."
"The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless."
"The great commandment of life is to love the Lord."
"Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord."
"When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives."
"Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable."
"One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness."
"With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings."
"Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted."
"Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement."
"Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness."
"We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor."
"The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him."
"The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods."
