Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.