I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

The Gospel has never changed.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

I think I’ve got wiser.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

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.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

What is once well done is done forever.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Religions get lost as people do.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.