The reality is that we will continue to hear negative information from many sources. It lies in our will to decide whether to discard them into the waste bin or record them into our brains!

What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container!

All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence!

Sometimes you try to fly and you fall. Remember your falls are not fatal, they're just a little painful. Endure the pain, clean the blood stain, you'll surely gain! Get up and fly again!

Those who die with their music still on their tongues unsung are trying to say “God had made a deal with the wrong customer like me

Never turn your back to those who have faced your problems on your behalf. Never shut your mouth on those who have opened their hearts to receive you!

When the thing that your heart strongly loves to do is the thing world hungers and thirsts to see done, then that's what you were called to do. You must never leave it undone!

When there is too much sorrow in your heart, true compassion gets its ways out of it. Don’t make a will over your sorrow, nobody needs to inherit it!

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

Before you can positively and passionately pursue what your heart love to do, you must first be grateful to the one who gave you such a heart to love such a thing!

Hatred gives you nothing, takes nothing from you, but destroys everything you have! Be careful of ideas of hatred that comes into your head. Destroy them before they make nests in your mind!

We need to apply the rules of 10, 000 hours in order to achieve the level of a skill commensurate with the status of a world-class expert

Christian love is not a wave of emotion, but a deliberate conviction of the mind that issues in a biblical way of life. (p. 36)

Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.

Calmness is always Godlike.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.