You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

God will bless us if we walk in humility.

Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.