Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed

If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Take advice, but don't take orders.