If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.

If we had helped a hundred children it would have all been worthwhile.

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you.

I look at scouting reports, but don't let them dictate what I'm throwing.

Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.