Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.

Your greatest path of influence is love.

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth.

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.

Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me?

Don’t let your dream die! Keep it sharp and clear in your own mind. Honor it and vow to keep moving toward it, no matter what it takes.

Yet whenever I think of light, I’m always reminded of her.

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.