Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

I’m about being the best.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Example is leadership.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

The Gospel has never changed.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘