First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.

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

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

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.