Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.

Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.