America is a song that sounds the best when we all sing together - at least for a while.

Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.

Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.

Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.