To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.

Thoughts are things that we can't see or feel yet.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

Leaders can only lead willing, preferably zealous followers so don't get too far out in front of your team.

It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.

I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.