Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

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

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Once you label me you negate me.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

The sun is new each day.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.