To create laughter, you must first learn to smile

The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Sometimes you have to forsake what you want, to get what you want.

People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its quite acceptable to be anti-intellectual.

The only cost to happiness is, choice. Remember, happiness is exclusive of materialism and/or the external worldly influences

If the devil starts putting obstacles in our way, that means God has a special plan of blessing for us

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

Corporate money is controlling everything.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.