Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.

Friendship is Love without his wings!