The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

I wish you allan ego freedriven day!

The Secret to Focusing on your Dream is to touch it every single day of your life.

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Take the chance. Just believe and things will happen.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.

Every season I am inspired by women.

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush