The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society.

You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.