I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

I'm thankful for every moment.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.