Mark it. The success of people may excite you. But the challenges they went through to achieve it will annoy you.

If you copy my dreams, you automatically will copy my challenges too. My success will give you a crown. My challenges will make you frown.

Losing excess fats through exercise is important, but losing useless friends is urgent. Treat urgent things first!

Rake your lifestyle. Gather all bitterness. Burn this bad attitude that has chocked the canals of your success. Be set free!

If you fail, you will be sad. But if you quit, you will be mad. Don't give up on your dreams. Get up. You can do it!

Consistency is the belt that fastens excellence in position. If you don't do it repeatedly, you'll not excel in it.

And remember, following Christ is a lifelong journey. Christians are foot soldiers, so to speak. Always learning. Always growing stronger.

If now in some ways I drink too much, it’s not that I lack a reverence for the world.

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

There is no greater burden than great potential.

Take care with the end as you do with the beginning

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.