When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.

The outfit, tight in places, and loose in some, says as much in the buttons as it does in cuffs.

Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.

My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.