Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

It's strange how quickly the significance of of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take through the brain. It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.

To failure at something is an attempt to succeed

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.