Favorite Quotations

"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought."
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. ~William Tecumseh Sherman 

“Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.” Ronald Reagan

"The Federal Government has no funds which it does not, in some manner, take from the people.  And a dollar cannot make the round trip from Oklahoma, Iowa, California or even Maryland, to Washington and back, without shrinking in the process."
~Ezra Taft Benson

"ONE OF THE GREATEST DELUSIONS in the WORLD is the HOPE that the EVILS OF THIS WORLD are to be CURED BY LEGISLATION"

~Thomas B. Reed (1886)

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

~ Frederick Keonig

"Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard." — D. Todd Christofferson

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed;we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." ~Nadauld

I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. ~Mary from He's Just Not That Into You

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”

 Herm Albright

Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands, they just don't. ~Elle Woods

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."-- Mary Frances Berry

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."-- Albert Einstein

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.” ~George Q. Cannon

 "The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty." - Benjamin Franklin

“The Spirit of God speaking to the spirit of man has power to impart truth with greater effect and understanding than the truth can be imparted by personal contact even with heavenly beings. Through the Holy Ghost the truth is woven into the very fibre and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten." Joseph Fielding Smith

"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams

If you live with one foot in the past and one foot in the future you only piss on the present!

It is far better to be trusted than loved.

Pride is the great enemy of unity

Henry B. Eyring

It's a lot easier to say you are mad than to admit you are hurt!

The Choices we make dictate the lives we lead

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.'    When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. 

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.”

~ Dave Barry

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."       --Edmond Burke

“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death” – Unknown

"Achievements are the accomplishment of persistent individuals" (James Jones)

"Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God." Gordon B. Hinckley

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ~St. Thomas Aquinas

"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like

feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."

-              Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain

Everyone reaches the level of their own incompetence!

- The Peter Principal

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin

"I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did."

~Ben Franklin