"If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future."

"If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!"

"Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have."

"The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!"

"It is a quiet truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance."

"He who seeks peace must remember that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm he's cool he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism."

"It is a quiet truth that the present moment is the only sanctuary where peace truly resides — an essential principle for the reflective life."