If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.

Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Whatever you focus upon, increases.

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance.

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.

Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.