We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.

Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ, None of us has? The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.", September 14, 1958)

Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?

A little hard work, never hurt anyone.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do [Smokey and the Bandit], and I knew we'd have fun if we could get Jackie Gleason.

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.