Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

When you become a parent, you become a superhero. You realize you have more strength, energy and love than is humanly possible.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

We are the storytelling animal.

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.