All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering.

But hey this was the FAYZ, where all you could really hope was to delay the pain.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

What does it take for Republicans to take off the flag pin and say, 'I am just too embarrassed to be on this team'?

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

God loves it when His children pray BIG, BOLD PRAYERS. Don't be afraid to ask your Father for anything!

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it.

I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.