Higher forces must be experienced directly, and that takes effort. That means you'll face the same stark choice I did: demand proof that you'll never receive, or use the tools in the face of your doubts. When I stopped thinking and focused on the tools, my reward was life changing faith.

It’s a paradox; only when you desire fear, will you be able to take action in its presence—which is what courage consists of.

Fear is almost always linked to an image you have of something terrible happening in the future. To develop courage, you have to give up this illusion of future certainty.

There’s a hidden, inner strength that you cannot find unless you push yourself through adversity.

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too … raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”

The Comfort Zone is supposed to keep your life safe, but what it really does is keep your life small.

A few rare individuals refuse to live limited lives. They drive through tremendous amounts of pain—from rejections and failures to shorter moments of embarrassment and anxiety. They also handle the small, tedious pain required for personal discipline, forcing themselves to do things we all know we should do.

Most of us choose avoidance instead. As a result, we don’t live up to our potential, never becoming fully ourselves.

The more intense the pain—and the more aggressively you move into it—the more energy you’ll create.

I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

Circumstances do not determine a man they reveal him.

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards; it means everything to me that they travel to every game.

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You cant just wish for it and you cant put it in the hands of other people.

You know bicycling isnt just a matter of balanceI said. its a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal not the ground. Im going to call that the bicyclists philosophy of life.

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

The great law of nature is that it never stops. There is no end.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

I have a great track record, and I have never been sued. If I can't find someone for someone, I refer them out. I have an affiliate division of matchmakers all over the world that I work with. Men like certain types of women, and I can subcontract that out to foreign countries.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else exactly as you are.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'