There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. (French Proverb) There I stood with bananas in one hand and chocolate chip cookies in...

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. (Author Unknown) Three mistakes that parents often make when raising children: they love them...

Trouble If there is no pain there is no gain in life. (Benjamin Franklin) “Trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it...

Don’t believe in miracles—depend on them. (Laurence J. Peter) One of the great miracles recorded in the Old Testament came through the...

Don’t be troubled when you meditate on the greatness of your former sins, but rather know that God’s grace is so much greater in...

Our actions disclose what goes on within us, just as its fruit makes known a tree otherwise unknown to us. (Thalassios the Liban) The...

Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday really did end last night. Today really is a brand new day and gives us another choice to do...

Life as I have known it has been ‘Finger Lickin’ Good. (Colonel Sanders) Anthony and I passed by the Kentucky Fried Chicken in Ellenton,...

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. (Dennis Waitley) You may fall but you can’t fail if you don’t quit. The old expression...

No one has yet shown how man could have been brought forth from non-man solely by time plus chance. (Francis A. Schaeffer) “That the...

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than...

Grace is divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need. (Ben Jowett) Thomas Jefferson will always be...

Perfect love sometimes does not come until grandchildren are born. (Welsh Proverb) Two of my grandchildren, Sydney three years old and...

The world is a looking-glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it…will sourly look at you;...

If you are pleased with what you are and if you say, “It is enough,” you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, reaching for the...

Down in their hearts, wise men and women know this truth; the only way to help yourself is to help others. (Elbert Hubbard) The...

(Story contributed by my best friend—the late Jerry Daniels) How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,...

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. (Pearl Strachan) Ralph and I traveled to his brother-in-law’s place in...

What we think, what we know, or what we believe is of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do with what we think,...

We cannot help conforming ourselves to what we love. (Francis of Sales) Jim Redmon’s 26-year-old son was favored to win the 400 meter...