God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

The idea came to me that I was am and will be but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.

The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

I believe miracles are like seeds. When planted and watered by our attention and appreciation, they bloom.

If you can be interested in other people you can own the world.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.