The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.

Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.

Never ask advice from someone who has something at stake or something to lose from your decision. The more objective the person is the greater value you should place on the input.

Whenever you are dealing with someone or something of unknown value the first one who places a value on it establishes its worth.

If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.

There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.