If you expect nothing you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

Luck is made by the making the right choices at the right timing and place.

This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.

If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

I'm an environmentalist. Most of my jokes are recycled.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

I do not allow others to influence my thinking unless it is positive or uplifting.

There are no unbeatable odds, there are no believable gods.