The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

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

Sin is geographical.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Imagination rules the world.