Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

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.

What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as you might think it is, is that child within.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

Everyone always says it's a blessing to look a lot younger than my age, but sometimes I just want to look my real age.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.