You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy. Solitude is also a place to receive great ideas and creative ideas from God. The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.

You can come into the rest of God through solitude.

It is a great thing to be able to make God your source and the time of solitude presents you with that opportunity.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.

Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.

The world gives a way to the man who knows where he is going.

[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.