The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.
Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.
Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.
Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.
Opportunity may knock only once but it passes by your door every day.
Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor.
Mama was a stickler on keeping your word. That's helped me to make the right decisions in so many situations. Because of that, I also think really hard before I make a decision because I know I'm going to have to see it through.
The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take them upon our shoulders.
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
He [Hugo Chavez] put poverty at the heart of political debate. Rightly so, given the country's immense inequality and poverty. He invested heavily in social programs such as literacy, health clinics, and education. He promoted Venezuela's indigenous culture and urged compatriots to take pride in its pre-Columbian history. He called time on the US treating Latin America as its backyard.