I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

Character is power.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

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

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

I don’t want followers.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

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

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

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.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

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

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

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.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.