Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. [Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]

It has been said that the lives of the early Christians consisted of persecution above ground and prayer below ground.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Some of us, we're hardly ever here The rest of us, we're born to disappear How do I stop myself from Being just a number? How will I hold my head To keep from going under?

Sometimes the breaking of things is cruel, and sometimes it is necessary, and sometimes it is just an accident." "My mother was a painting in the storm, convinced down to the last fibers of canvas and the last drop of paint on the brush that the rain was an important part of the making of a masterpiece.