You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

It's not a free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with free trade... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade.

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

I definitely have been known to be grossly insensitive in many different ways, you can ask the wife. To speak without a filter sometimes and not being able to edit myself with much sensitivity.

Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.