Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Have been most timid of cowards from day of birth, " replied Li Han, without shame, "and this is an inauspicious day."- "No it ain't, " said Olaf, "it ban Thursday.

Contentment should not be confused with smugness… Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures.

All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.

One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read it.

People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

How do we make the Lord's ways our ways? I believe we begin by learning of Him and praying for understanding.