Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

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.

Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind.

Isn't it lucky?

If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

You watch people run for president, and a large part of what they say, they don't ever follow through on. But I don't think you can afford to wait on this [trade agreements].

I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.

Jesus is the sun and Mary is the dawn announcing his rising.