Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

Anyone can stay true to your face, it's the people who stay true behind your back that really count.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.

Appreciate those who love you. Serve those who need you. Forgive those who hurt you. Thank those who help you.

The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don't let the little things get you down.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.It is totally consistent.

I believe there are two ways of concealing a secret: 1. Leave no trace of it. 2. Replace it with a lie.So which option did you choose, Mr.President?

Thank God I've wasted my youth already. I don't want to do that again.

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

You may have had countless lives, and many more stretching before you, and what else have you got to do with your time?

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.