At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

He who lacks imagination lives but half a life. He has his experiences, he has his facts, he has his learning. But do any of these really live unless touched by the magic of the imagination?

Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

There's something totally crazy about this.

To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.

Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.