I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

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.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

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

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

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.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

My future is righteousness.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

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.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Observe all men, thyself most.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.