This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another.

I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.

I used to think that your calling was about doing something good in this world. Now I understand it’s about becoming someone good—and letting that goodness impact the world around you.

Discomfort is the sign, you are on right track.

If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

...we find our vocations not by focusing on ourselves, but by focusing on others.

The path to your dream is more about following a direction than arriving at a destination.

You are a writer. You just need to write.

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become.

Serving people is the best way to earn influence.

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

Be joyful and beautiful like a flower and share your treasures with the universe.

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.

I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.