What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required.

We are not self-caused little gods.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

I don't kill myself. I can't live like that.

Be as unique and original as possible.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

The neuroses parody the virtues.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.