It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.

It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.

God doesn’t want us to sit idle and simply enjoy His presence, he wants a close relationship with Him

'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself.

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.