Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

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