We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.

The best way to get even is to forget.

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

Her passions were narrow but deep.

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.

We had one rule which was 'whatever you are feeling, that's okay'

When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.