Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

When I give, I give myself.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

It's always too early to quit.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.