In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.

If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.

Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue.But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue.

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.

A man's relationship with the Bible is an exact picture of His relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

Rights are subordinate to responsibilities.

A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.

True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.

Present fear is never as bad as later regret.

Endurance cannot be produced by determination alone; endurance is a product of physical exercise.

Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

Honestly, the challenge about being a mom is when something goes wrong - someone's sick, getting someone to doctor's appointments.

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.