When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime.

I will tell His Majesty what a king is. A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field.

First we must understand that all of the world's deceptions flow from the belief that love is primarily for the fulfillment and comfort of the self. The world poisons love by focusing first and foremost on meeting one's own needs. Christ taught that love is not for the fulfillment of the self but for the Glory of God and the food of others. True love is selfless. It gives; it sacrifices; it dies to its own needs.

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.

When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.

A true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.

Many people ask about Christianity the same [way] they ask about everything else today: "What's in it for me?" In our selfishness, we think of God as we think of everyone else. What can He contribute to us, personally?

If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along," one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us—that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.