Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing I do really matters.

You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.

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

I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want to be happy it only makes sense to discipline ourselves to choose our attitudes, to think positively and to be hopeful.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.