I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

The strong man is not one who is good at wrestling, but the strong man is one who controls himself in a fit of rage.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God's ability to provide for or protect us.

Coaching is a very different skill. You need patience, you need a lot of organisation. I don't have any.

A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.

Savagery in the quest for power is older than the Bible, but some of my opponents really hate my guts.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.

We probably will never be free from all our hostilities, and there even may be days and weeks in which our hostile feelings dominate our emotional life to such a degree that the best thing we can do is to keep distance, speak little to others and not write letters, except to ourselves.

At times emerging leaders limit their future possibilities by their impatience. They look for shortcuts to success, but God is methodical. He typically lays a foundation of character before building a superstructure of leadership.

I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.