[when asked by his secretary if she should destroy all files that were over ten years old] Yes, but keep copies.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

Truth is important than anything. But you have to know how to handle it well.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.

Rumi says, 'Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.' With awareness, know which emotions are in the house, and why they’re there, and never forget who you are when the guests leave.

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.

You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.