If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.