Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

God is the source of life. Life without God is hopeless. But life with God is an endless hope

Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Not all prisons have bars

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.