Age is just a number baby, what are you now? 40?
What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!
Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.
Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law. . . there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.
All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp. . . ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.
One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.
Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.
I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?
A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.