I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with. . . greater joy, peace, and happiness.
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. . . My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love. . . They're the guiding lights of a life.
It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.