The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I don’t care about money.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

But I’ve got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album’s worth of work as his legacy. That’s all that life allowed him.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.