A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.