Don't let your life wait for other people.

If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

The heart does heal and you will love like this again- except when you do, you'll deny that you ever loved like this before.

That which does not kill you will ultimately make you stronger.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

There was no one left to speak for me.

In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” one needs to work for self-improvement, to possess decisiveness, to have a will to win and dedication to achieve the goal at all cost

Monoculture is mono for the earth.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.'

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.