A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

When trust improves, the mood improves.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.

The world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

It's so much easier to be cynical.

Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.