The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.

You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.

My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

I didn’t know that the times we spent together on the weekends, the times that we laughed together, and the times you helped me out was your way of silently wishing me a beautiful goodbye.

The best method for getting away with something outrageous is to do it right in front of people, and then tell them they’re not seeing what they think they’re seeing.

In times of great darkness, courage lights the way home.

Vehicular Darwinism based on survival of the quickest.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.