Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened

The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.

...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time.

Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.