Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

That's one of the reasons I'm successful, I do tend to do the right thing.

...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.