A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

What we think, we become.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Lost time is never found again.

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.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Mine is better than ours.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

We boil at different degrees.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.