So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.

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.

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair

Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith.

One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

We become whatever we are committed to.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic!