You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

the fact about marriage is that it's never perfect, there is always struggle but you have to pick who you willing to struggle with

I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.

In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice free of vulgarity and impropriety.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk .

John Wayne was just a very conservative guy, who had not served in World War II, and he was defensive about that - he almost overcompensated his anti-Communism because of that reason.

I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.

That's the key to comedy: allowing yourself to look stupid

You remember what happened when Eddie Pipp got hurt? A guy named Lou Gehrig took over.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid