Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

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

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

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

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

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

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.