You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

I'm thankful for every moment.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Once you label me you negate me.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.