A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

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.

Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you … with respect and love and deference and kindness.

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.