Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

Anyone is free to judge me, but they weren't there in my tough times.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.