Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

It comes from within.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

The bigger the dream, the better the story.

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.

Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.