I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

Doing the right thing has power.

Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind

Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.

If there is no gardener there is no garden.