A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

Gratitude promotes good well-being.

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed.