Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

At times we convince ourselves, we have something to lose but in fact, who you are and your being remains intact.

To understand the journey you have to do the walking.

Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it's so simple.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

Once you finish paying for college you could reduce your life insurance.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.