I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Damn, I really want to kiss you.

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.

Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.

The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.