Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.

We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.

Surrender to God.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

Ours are the arms with which God hugs and holds her children.

When my physicality is involved, it's kind of my comfort zone, so I find it much easier to access emotions.