My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

The gift of writing

I would only blame myself if something happened to you.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

We do not want to make Scout training too soft.

America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

I love a nicely groomed guy who smells good. That's important.

Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.