Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. We could refer to all the components of personal and family preparedness, not in relation to holocaust or disaster, but in cultivating a life-style that is on a day-to-day basis its own reward.

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.

We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.

Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.

Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.

We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.