Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage

Let there be music in the home. If you have teenagers who have their own recordings, you will be prone to describe the sound as something other than music. Let them occasionally hear something better. Expose them to it. It will speak for itself. More of appreciation will come than you may think. It may not be spoken, but it will be felt, and its influence will become increasingly manifest as the years pass.

I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.