That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.

Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.

Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Life is a test. Without problems to solve, it wouldn’t be much of a test.

The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

When something's over with me, it's over.