A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

I wanted to better inform the world.

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.