He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

I love women with attitude.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!