My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities.

Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Hamas cannot stand free media.

But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

It's important to me that a man is good at taking care of people.

Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.

I have people come onstage and ask me questions and I get to meet them. That's one of the reasons I like it. When you're performing, when you're doing your movies, they're not there with you.

He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.