I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

God always wants us to be growing.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

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 greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Be as you wish to seem.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

You either make dust or eat dust.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.