No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

It is your vibrational thoughts that give life to the goals you wish for.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave me, such as love and friendship.

What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.