As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.

We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ.

The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something or someone else.

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast.

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.

And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.

What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.