Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul. We cannot do very much for anyone else until we have first done something for ourselves. That is, it is pretty difficult to give someone else an education unless we have some education ourselves. It is pretty hard to get someone else to think unless we ourselves are thinkers.

Next to the human spirit the human body is the most marvelous of God's creations.

The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.

Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.

We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them

When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin.

There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.