Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

To create something you must be something.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Religions get lost as people do.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

My message is that God is a good God.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.