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.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

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

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.

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

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

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

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.

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.

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

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

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

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

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

There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

I was possessed with a wonderful example of my Italian American family. They would come over and join us every Sunday, all my aunts and uncles and nephews and nieces, and I would sing for them.

I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful._ But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it's no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're worth.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

There were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer?

If I could be involved in the hunting and fishing industry, that would be amazing. That said, I studied biology in college and that led into me being really involved in anatomy and being a pre-med major.

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?

For in the true nature of things if we rightly consider every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!

Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?

A healthy environment, a strong economy and energy independent America - that would be the purpose of my presidency, is break the strangle hold that people enjoy on fossil fuels who hate our guts.

Jorgensen is tough, but Lin Dan is right up there. He is the best and biggest rival. I really want to catch all his records, but if I want to achieve that, then the most important thing for me is to stay healthy.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.