Scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered for.

I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!

It is better to pray with a pure heart before the family altar than to perform gaudy ceremonies in a pagoda, clad in the robes of an unworthy bonze.

No one wants to live forever if it means becoming increasingly decrepit.

I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

I have always advised men to read

A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.

I think continually of those who were truly great.