To pray is to work, to work is to pray.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.