A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions

When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room.

Maybe more businesses should allow time for recess.

One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.

Everybody's saying I should run for president.

You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.