"Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs."
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"The world needs banking but it does not need banks."
"God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient."
"God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose"
"Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do."
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"
"The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything."
"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."
"Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed."
"A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder."
"He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him."
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
"Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few."
"Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within"
"Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs."
"You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal."
"Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does."
"The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can."
"Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits."
"Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin."