All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

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.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

We are what we believe we are.

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

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

What worries you, masters you.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

I'm thankful for every moment.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

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.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.