Love’s value is not dependent on the person receiving it, but on the person giving it.

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.

Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).

A deeper intimacy with God sharpens our awareness of sin, which causes a stronger need for grace and a freer offering of mercy.

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

I prefer to work alone – except in the bedroom. (Steele)

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.