I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

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

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

I never hold a grudge.