America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

I have realized that nothing else matters besides this: Am I doing everything God has put me on this earth to do?

I think that if you are going to be successful as a Christian in the arts, you have to be successful in your Christian life.

You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.