The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.

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.

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

You can or you can't is not the matter.You wanted to or you tried is the whole game about.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.