Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

I think, overall, the NBA and its players are really conscious about our role and what we do as role models.

Francis of Assisi once said, "We should preach the gospel all day long—and if necessary, use words!

So often people think of sharing God's love by preaching or reading the Bible to someone. More often, we can show people Jesus by demonstrating kindness and love in practical ways.

She believes that going too far is wrong. Yet she's not trying to prove her point; she's just living it out.

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.

No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. No one sacrifices the most important thing she possesses: love. No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.