Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

We must have this spirit of wisdom and revelation of Christ and His Word if we are to grow. It is not going to be imparted to us through our intellect, either. The Holy Spirit must unveil it to us.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.