You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.

I understand the law of sowing and reaping. It is a spiritual law that has tremendous physical implications. Every time that we delay or frustrate what we can do today, leaving it till tomorrow, we hold back the future. We, too, must reap what we have sown by experiencing delays.

I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.