Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Mentally I can die, Emotionally I can cry, Physically I can sigh, Spirituality I can fly. If I just try.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.

I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.