Quotes about Influence

Laughter is America's most important export.

Scripture makes it clear that these responses are not forced upon us by the pressures of the situation. What I do comes from inside me. The things that happen to me will influence my responses but never determine them. Rather, these responses flow out of the thoughts and motives of my heart.

And each of us has tried to be the Holy Spirit in another person's life, trying to work spiritual changes that only God can accomplish.

What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.

What a man leaves behind is what a man is.

Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured.

Girls can do that. Steer a man away from death or drive him to it.

To the two who gave me life and the one who made me free

Tolstoy was wrong. Kings are not the slaves of history. History is the slave of kings.

The fathers may soar, they may triumph, they may leave, but the children know who they are; they remember, half in glory and half in accusation.

Maureen appeared at my elbow, and the boys seemed reluctant to continue under her springtime eyes so wide with interest. They buckled in confusion, not willing to beat up three girls under her watchful gaze. So they listened to a budding male instinct that told them to pretend we were unworthy of their attention.

Never underestimate your role as a father. Remember, Dads, that your children's view of God will largely be dependent on their view of you.