“Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices and you don’t implement them, your choices may be the best ever, but the most useless.”

“Care without candor creates dysfunctional relationships. Candor without care creates distant relationships.”

“people with charisma possess an outward focus instead of an inward one. They pay attention to other people, and they desire to add value to them.”

“need of encouragement, look to God first. He will never tell you that you’re not going to make it.”

“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”

“Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them . . .the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.”

“Do you want everything God has for you? Then be willing to do everything He asks of you.”

“Be the change you want to see”

“Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.”

“You just have to take the first step , you don't have to see the whole staircase.”

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

“You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.”

“Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty years: learning, developing, maturing in body and mind, and how, having with matured mental powers reached the summit of life from which it all lay before me, I stood on that summit -- like an arch-fool -- seeing clearly that there is nothing in life, and that there has been and will be nothing. And he was amused... But whether that "someone" laughing at me existed or not, I was none the better off. I could give no reasonable meaning to any single action or to my whole life. I was only surprised that I could have avoided understanding this from the very beginning -- it has been so long known to all. Today or tomorrow sickness and death will come (they had come already) to those I love or to me; nothing will remain but stench and worms. Sooner or later my affairs, whatever they may be, will be forgotten, and I shall not exist. Then why go on making any effort?... How can man fail to see this? And how go on living? That is what is surprising! One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.”

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story.”