I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there’s another way to live and respond to things.

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.

It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.

I said all along that God is in control.

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

They don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness inside of me and turns into love and light.

This tree was a vast cylinder of wood. It filled the sky. The limbs reached out above me, a great canopy sheltering the rest of the trees, as if they were its children.

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.

I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer to do my research in books.

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.