Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.

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.

A society needs to know when to forgive, but it also needs to know when to punish.

I am a writer, I'm supposed to be intense and emotional,

There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.