Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

Anyone can stay true to your face, it's the people who stay true behind your back that really count.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.

Appreciate those who love you. Serve those who need you. Forgive those who hurt you. Thank those who help you.

The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don't let the little things get you down.

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.

I think everything in life is a balance.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.