When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

It is not our job to remain whole.We came to lose our leavesLike the trees, and be born again, Drawing up from the great roots.

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

Rabbi means teacher, and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.