“Do I make up some ‘god’ in my mind, or do I make up my mind to know God?”

“The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.”

“Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.”

“God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.”

“To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”

“Tomorrow’ is the thing that’s always coming but never arrives. ‘Today’ is the thing that’s already here and never leaves. And because that’s the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that’s not arriving.”

“I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For ‘easy’ and ‘right’ are rarely compatible.”

“Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we’d be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that’s left.”

“The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.”

“I hold in my hand a million ideas and more. But if I am puzzled as to why they have never leapt out of my hand and been birthed into the realities they were crafted to be, it is likely because the other hand has withheld the sacrifice that is necessary to birth an idea.”

“Sometimes my successes come quickly and at other times they are terribly slow to arrive. It is not my place to determine the speed at which they arrive or if they arrive at all. My place is to keep forging ahead no matter what.”

“I spend my day in one of three fundamental positions: sitting down, laying down or standing up. And if I’m at all interested in making any progress in life, I might take a moment and consider the fact that two-thirds of these begin and end in the same place.”

“Greatness is the born of ordinary men who decided to work extraordinarily hard.”

“The difference between ‘wanting’ something and ‘having’ something is ‘doing’ something.”