A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.
Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.
Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.
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