You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.

Do something purposeful and wise so that when God sent his blessings, they will fall on it.

He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.

If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

Personality, too, is destiny.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into action by being of service to others.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.