I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

You should never give up your inner self.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I am a Catholic.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.