The leader demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Worry is an intrusion into God's providence.

True love for our nation will compel us to shout on the streets and get on our knees and ask people to repent

Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren’t.

You have to know your goal to reach out for it.

Our society routinely steals from the future.

Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed th

Never be afraid to wish for what you really want in life.Wishes are possible manifestation of thoughts.

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.