No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

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.

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

My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

Sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm not angry.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.