Tolerance is understanding. It is open to new light. Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own.

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

I am aware that true miracles, things unexplained by human reason, can only occur when Jesus does them.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.

A thing which fades With no outward sign - Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.