There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

You must change in order to survive.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

Sharing our love is the highest form of bliss.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

The only way to stop big data from becoming big brother is introduce privacy laws that protect the basic human rights online.

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?

He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.

I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.