I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Dad just told me that I'm the son of a dragon!And then he leaves?

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

I do know what my first meal in the next world would be Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.