History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

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.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

My point is, people really don't change very much.

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.