Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think "you do."

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.

When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.

Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think.

It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.