Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

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

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

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.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.