Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it.

People fear what they do not understand.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.

Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance.

Bath toys are reserved only for the oldest, more lethal vampires.

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.

I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.