It is those who avoid the spotlight that tend to be doing the greatest things because their hearts are set on avoiding the lesser things.

To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.

To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.

As a nation, we must remember that the principles upon which we stand are always superior to the politics that we can’t stand.

God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.

To lead is to serve. Conversely, to serve is to lead. And if either of these elements are removed from the equation, we’ll soon find that we’re doing neither.

Without as much as a single question, legions of geese lift themselves to autumn’s skies, obediently heeding the distant call of southern horizons. And I think that it’s less the magnificence of their trek, and more about the humility of their obedience to the trek. For if I was left with a single prayer to utter, it would be to be more like them.

Authentic greatness involves doing great things and then saying that I had nothing to do with it because God had everything to do with it. Anything else is my ego on a bender.