"Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him."

"Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything."