It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

I celebrate my spirit with joy and playful abandon.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

To those who believe but wish their belief to be strengthened, I urge you to walk in faith and trust in God. Spiritual knowledge always requires an exercise of faith.

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.

Apply true focus to what you do best.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family.

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.