The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

Anyone can stay true to your face, it's the people who stay true behind your back that really count.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.

Appreciate those who love you. Serve those who need you. Forgive those who hurt you. Thank those who help you.

The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don't let the little things get you down.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

Confident in spirit, courageous in soul.

You can make all your dreams come true.

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.