Contentment - being happy while doing something - and complacency - being happy while doing nothing - are entirely different.

When you have knowledge, patience, and passion, and pair those with hard work, you will find success -- but don’t ever forget about kindness.

In relationships, always strive to give more than you take -- that's how you make a bigger impact.

Everything we do is practice for something greater than where we currently are.

You'll only beat your fears once you get to the point where you care more about your purpose than what people think of you.

Problems don't get better with time they become better when you find bravery. Success demands that you fight your fears.

Every time you make a choice you’re taking time and effort away from something or someone else. Every choice has a cost.

The biggest roadblock to changing the world is believing that your voice doesn't matter.

When quitting is done correctly, it isn't giving up - it's making room for something better.

Entitlement is such a cancer, because it is void of gratitude.

Instead of thinking that you always need to do bigger things, learn to do the small things in better ways.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

Be loving but bold, be kind but not cold.

When God places his Destiny on your life, nobody can take it away.

There's something more surprising than becoming a bestseller, and that's receiving messages of hate by other fellow authors.

Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.

In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

When a critical mass of people have the Bible and apply what it teaches in their lives, a nation is transformed.

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation