If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.

One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.

If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.

Wisdom is essentially the same thing as common sense, the slight difference is that common sense provides the ability to react appropriately, while wisdom is frequently more proactive and additionally encourages the shaping of the...

There is no freedom without bravery.

If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you...

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If...

When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations,...

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.

Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.

It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

We were very poor. But between the covers of books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything. I began to read about people of great accomplishment. As I read those...

The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.