Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

I’m not a natural joiner.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

I think and that is all that I am.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.