Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

There are no secrets to running success,anyone who says there are is probably trying to sell you something.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.