Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character.

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

Sometimes those who start out the slowest end up going the farthest.

Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.

Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.