If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

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

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

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

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Going home helps the content.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Be not a slave of words.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.