A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport.

I was a grill cook at McDonalds for a little bit. I did landscape for a little bit. I played a lot in the bar scene, I played countless sets of acoustic songs in that arena.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

I think the most horrible name for a crime has to be manslaughter. ... "I slaughtered a man! Just like a pig! Put him on a spit and put an apple in his mouth!"

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.