If you say a word often enough it becomes you.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.

Can a broken cistern hold water?

When we think carefully about the past, we get to know and understand not just what happened in the past but what really went into things that happened in the past.

Hope docks in my heart

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.

This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive.

I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.