It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac.

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

If you want to prosper, prosper God.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself.

I really don't think there should be a movie about me. That's for sure!

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

Sunsets are just little glimpses of the Golden streets of Heaven.