I think when people look upon somebody as a role model it is the biggest honor.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

With Hulk, I don't agree with all his choices, but you know what, I don't hear people saying all the great things he does. When he was on the Wheaties box, all those kids that said their prayers and took their vitamins, I don't hear them saying that.

I believe we have a responsibility, even if our job is to lead a nonprofit organization, as private citizens to be good citizens and to make our voices heard.

It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

If you are a believer, you don't have to go out and be a street evangelist.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.