Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence.

Embrace the future and keep your back up against the past.

Often we can't reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don't let your struggle become your identity.

If you want to master your past at some point in time you’ll have to learn forgiveness.

Our freedom through Christ means we are all free to love one another and to serve one another.

Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity.

We can't always take the higher road when faced with adversity. Sometimes for the sake of restoration, peace and sharing the love of Jesus, we have to walk through the tribulation.

Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Love is the action verb of life, and of the heart.

Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.

If one door closes and another door opens, chances are your house is haunted.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.

As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.

I don’t have to win. I just have to make you lose.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.