Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

It's no sin to tell a good story.

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)

The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance and I cried like a little baby. She's 11 years old, so seeing her get dressed up and pretty made me cry.

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.