It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

The cautious seldom err.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

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

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

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