“RESPOND POSITIVELY TO LIFE. Develop a positive self-image.Your image, your reactions to life and your decisions are completely within your control.”

“And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.”

“God lets you go through challenges to give you credibility in a certain area and the ability to help someone else out of a situation that you once were in.”

“Maybe the critics are right. Maybe there's no escaping our great political divide, an endless clash of armies, and any attempts to alter the rules of engagement are futile. Or maybe the trivialization of politics has reached a point of no return, so that most people see it as just one more diversion, a sport, with politicians our paunch-bellied gladiators and those who bother to pay attention just fans on the sidelines: We paint our faces red or blue and cheer our side and boo their side, and if it takes a late hit or cheap shot to beat the other team, so be it, for winning is all that matters. But I don't think so. They are out there, I think to myself, those ordinary citizens who have grown up in the midst of all the political and cultural battles, but who have found a way-in their own lives, at least- to make peace with their neighbors, and themselves. ...I imagine they are waiting for a politics with the maturity to balance idealism and realism, to distinguish between what can and cannot be compromised, to admit the possibility that the other side might sometimes have a point. They don't always understand the arguments between right and left, conservative and liberal, but they recognize the difference between dogma and common sense, responsibility and irresponsibility, between those things that last and those that are fleeting. They are out there, waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them.”

“قد تبدو المجاملات أحيانا وكأنها كلام في الهواء، ولكنها-مثل الهواء الذي نستخدمه في ملء الإطارات في سياراتنا- يمكن أن تسهل مسيرنا في طريق الحياة”

“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”

“bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.”

“But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.”

“contentment is an expression of faith in the goodness of God. It says, “God, I believe you love me and know what’s best for me.”

“We have a mandate to speak out against “the sin that so easily entangles” [Hebrews 12:1 NIV]; for though we are not of the world, we are still in it.”

“Whatever you begin will see the light of day provided you can dream big and be a ruler over your dreams with persistent actions.”

“But our strategy for peace with freedom must also be based on strength—economic strength and military strength.”

“Many diets and fitness plans use guilt as a motivation, but that never works in the long run.”

“Good character keeps good brand safely. Bad character destroys hard earned brands.”

“Individuals score points, but teams win games. In The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, individuals will learn how to score more points so their teams will win more games.”