Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

Keep dreaming because your dream will be the message that brings change to the others.

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you every moment becomes a prayer.

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate God-given abilities.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman...

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.

The night is dark and I am far from home.

Necessity is the mother of our invention.

Oft when the white still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day - any day - and go to town with it.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Hope that star of life's tremulous ocean.

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

Is heaven more beautiful than the country of the muskox in summer when sometimes the mist blows over the lakes and sometimes the water is blue and the loons cry very often?

When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art, science, or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.

My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about things that matter.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

The opinions of others should not deter you from being yourself..

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us...

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken

From time to time, in the moments when you need it most, God will speak to you to remind you of your beauty.

You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself.