The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

The cautious seldom err.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.