Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.