“Little beat big When Little smart. First with the head, then with the heart.”

“With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.”

“Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.”

“The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause”

“1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause”

“An entire nation shook under the power of one man’s [MLK’s] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.”

“Little beat big When Little smart. First with the head, then with the heart.”

“The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.”

“Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.”

“Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a loneliness which often let me aching to share an emotion but equally afraid that if I did so I would reveal a weakness which could later be used against me.”

“While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen years old can't really work out. It had something to do with rejecting the Lord, with my mother, the Judge, being surrounded by guys who came from wealthy homes, even my headless snake. While I didn't think of it as camouflage, I now know that it was, that I kept myself protected by being out in front. Too far in front to be an easy mark.”