A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today. The way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

Family is everything.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.