Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.

Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.

Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

Striving can be more important than arriving.

A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to react in a sensitive, caring, responsible manner, especially to those in his own home and family. Good people can become infested with this material and it can have terrifying, destructive consequences.

Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.