Learn to love yourself for you cannot give to others what you do not possess.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results.

The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don’t is because my angels keep me standing up.

Michelle, I think it's time you came back to New York with me.

I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Unconditional love will turn a loser into a winner. You have no idea how many times your heavenly Father has wanted to reach out and grasp you in his arms when you felt like you blew it!

What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

If an institution has become so large that there is no alternative except for the taxpayers to provide support, should we allow so many institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.