Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.