Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I dwell in possibility.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

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

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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.

Everybody has a purpose.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.