Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Be the player in your own dream life. Don't be a spectator watching your dreams every day

Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see you through a start of your journey to success.

It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty!

Do you believe in love at first sight? Or should I tackle you again?

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

Your past is not your potential.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.