The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

But I’ve got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album’s worth of work as his legacy. That’s all that life allowed him.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Pray, and let God worry.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.