How easy it is to slip.How hard it is to climb.How wise it is to keep in stepAnd never fall behind.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... her... alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.

All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.

Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.