A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.