Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

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.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.