“We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge.”

“You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough”

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.” 

“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”

“We all have negative thoughts. They are impossible to avoid. But ongoing negative thoughts...That's a choice.”

“Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.”

“God has a way of removing what looks permanent by showing us an explosion of His goodness.”

“You will give birth to more in the future than you’ve lost in the past.”

“A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.”

“Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.”

“the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...” 

“Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.”

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

“[As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.”

“The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours you make the work your end, you will presently find yourself all unawares inside the only circle in your profession that really matters. You will be one of the sound craftsmen, and other sound craftsmen will know it. This group of craftsmen will by no means coincide with the Inner Ring or the Important People or the People in the Know. It will not shape that professional policy or work up that professional influence which fights for the profession as a whole against the public: nor will it lead to those periodic scandals and crises which the Inner Ring produces. But it will do those things which that profession exists to do and will in the long run be responsible for all the respect which that profession in fact enjoys and which the speeches and advertisements cannot maintain. And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the center of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring. But the difference is that its secrecy is accidental, and its exclusiveness a by-product, and no one was led thither by the lure of the esoteric: for it is only four or five people who like one another meeting to do things that they like. This is friendship. Aristotle placed it among the virtues. It causes perhaps half of all the happiness in the world, and no Inner Ring can ever have it.”