There's a whole group of Christians who believe the individual is more important, but in the end I don't think that's what Christ was talking about.
One eye-witness weighs more than ten hearsays — Seeing is believing all the world over.
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
All men love themselves.
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
. . the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough?
If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way
Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.
Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.