"Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things."

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

"I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf."

"We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'"

"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."

"You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you."

"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."

"God's mercy is fresh and new every morning."