Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

No nation respects a beggar.

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something.

Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.