"You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward."

"I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope."

"My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow."

"It is a profound truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact."

"It is a unyielding truth that clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect."

"It is a profound truth that clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."

"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one."