In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Fortune favors the audacious.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

Don’t make a feller wait too long. A feller waiting on a gal can get ornery’er than a huntin’ dog that’s tree’d it’s squirrel.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines.

Be thankful for all that you have.

A man after God's own heart is...a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

Women are fully capable of doing everything.

If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.