“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

True obedience is true freedom.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

My look and my character come from my experiences as a child. I wasn’t allowed to have girl toys, and I grew up poor. I also had a rough relationship with my stepdad.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.

If you’re born poor it’s not your fault but if you die poor it’s your fault.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.