“Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.”

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves… Some hold it in their hearts.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

A true buddy is a person who thinks that you’ll be a fantastic egg although he is aware that you are somewhat cracked.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Topcats often begin as underdogs.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.

Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.