There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

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.

Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

Hugs are nourishment for the heart.

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

The longer we live the more weight we carry in our hearts.

When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy!

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

In Christ we are given the courage and strength to change the world

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.