“A bruise is a lesson… and each lesson makes us better.”

“Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above.”

“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”

“Imagination is the highest form of research.”

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”

“The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died. They’re like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they’re made out of the memories people have of you.”

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”

“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

“You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.”

“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”