Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

A man’s character is his fate.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

My wife is already in Heaven.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I think that success is having fun.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

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.‘

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Lord, help my poor soul.

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

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

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.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.