“We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.”

If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. It’s your choice

Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.

I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.

If you do not choose the kingdom of God, it does not matter what you choose instead.

Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

God will always make a way where there is no way.

Try a little harder to be a little better.

It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we’ll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.