Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects...It affects not only the two people involved, but also their families and particularly their children and their children's children down through the many generations

I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.