The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

The weakest Christians are those who know that they need to pray . . . and yet don't pray.

Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practice it resembles him who ploughs his land and leaves it unsown.

You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire, once the flame begins to catch, the wind will blow it higher.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.

You have to protect the privacy of the advice you get, or you'll never get the advice you need.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.

Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Men will spend their health getting wealth. Then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

The noblest revenge is to forgive.

Wherever you are - be all there.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

I can not and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.