We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

No wonder she was so underweight. She was desperate to please a woman that could never be pleased, in the hopes of being loved and accepted by the very person that should be giving that freely.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.