Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.

It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep talking, arguing, making love and dancing to the Ramones- it'll probably keep working.

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Climbers have no sense of smell.

If you don’t almost fail, then it wasn’t hard enough

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.