The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

If you're born once, you die twice; but if you're born twice, you die once.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements.

Those who believe they can move mountains, do!

The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.

The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

People do more for you when you make them feel important.

L'aube exalteé ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes, et j'ai vu quelquefois ce que l'homme a cru voir!(And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe they've seen!)

Don't limit yourself to the skies when there is a whole galaxy out there.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.