The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The future will be better tomorrow.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

I serve God.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I think that success is having fun.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

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.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Freedom is relative.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.