One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Your mind is a blue sky where without fear you can fly.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.