When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Empathy is the door to wisdom.

I am afraid, my dear niece, that a ‘mere woman’ is something you most certainly are not.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

If you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.