When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Read to your children. Open their minds and fill them with imagination and wonder. Create Awesome by being awesome.

Many are called but few get up.

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back, Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act.