Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.

Your greatest path of influence is love.

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth.

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.

Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me?

The sky's gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything.

The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.

I don’t think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it’s not a little uncomfortable, then it’s not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway

When you have so little, just the smallest thing can make you happy

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz, ' 'Hair, ' 'Fame, ' 'Annie, ' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

Good judgment is what you get from experience, which is what you have immediately after using poor judgement.

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.