A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Parents’ transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages.

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

There are Easter eggs in every book I've ever written. I think in the first one I called Scientology "Diabology," but I was scared, so I didn't tell many people what it really meant.

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

There is a direct correlation between your appreciation of what Christ has done for you and the expression of worship

Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today, perhaps a person who seems particularly in need.

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

It is the success which makes great men.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.