We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I answer only to God.

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

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Act, and God will act.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Big results require big ambitions.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

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

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.