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 you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

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

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?

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

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

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

There is no freedom without bravery.

To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

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

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?

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, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

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

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?

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.

Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.

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

I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations

America's leaders should be examples of integrity and high moral standards. When their behavior evokes shame rather than pride and becomes something that we don't want to discuss in front of the children at the kitchen table, we should consider impeachment.

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.

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

If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

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.

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.

Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it.

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 need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing applies to your city, state, and country. And if you want to be relevant to the entire world, program that computer known as your brain with all kinds of information from everywhere in order to prepare yourself.

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