Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once.

I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

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.

Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.

Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

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