“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.

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 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.

We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.

But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.