"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'"
"Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way."
"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."
"For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."
"You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue."
"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."
"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."
"You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable."
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."
"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."
"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend."
"Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations."
"The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in."
"Love is energy of life."
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
"In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together."
"Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man."
"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you."
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
"That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal."
"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."
