No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel.

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.

If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.