"I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself."

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange."

"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."

"Wisdom principle 22 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 38."

"Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular."

"If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it."

"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."