When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

Perseverance can win all battles.

Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.

Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.

Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something.

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?