You have no excuse to give... Jonah prayed fervently even in the belly of the shark! Environment is not a barrier!

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!

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

He was making up a story, and she was buying into his bullshit. That was a recipe for disaster

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

I think we have to realize that God sometimes gives us more time to pray, and when he does this, we can pray that he will bless those who have opportunities to speak to others.

He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.