Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
Duty is ours, results are God's.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
. . . he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. . . The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.
To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.
A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.