If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

The Bible differentiates clearly between true faith and mere religiosity.

When I see joggers go by I shout "Jim Fixx is dead. Fats Domino lives!"

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

There was a difference between loving someone and being in love

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite