If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

Creation begins with vision.

I've never watched The Notebook either. Not big on romance flicks," I admitted, opening the huge cartons. "Really? I thought every girl has seen that movie and can quote it at a drop of a hat.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

When someone asks for your time, and you put your phone away to talk to them... that's leadership.