It wasn't enough to be positive, focused and fearless, I had to take action! Musicians say that the hardest part of practicing is taking the instrument out of the case. To begin is to be half done!

....What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come.

Acknowledge people, not their jobs.

If you can change your mind, you can change the world. Before you can be creative, you must be courageous. Creativity is the destination, but courage is the journey.

When you pray, you talk to God. When you meditate, you listen to God.

.....before we can change the world we need to change our minds.

The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate, and their net worth will be determined by what grows out of it.

History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.

The road to success just might be your driveway.

Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions.

When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.

I feel really lucky that I love my job. I really do.

Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.