Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

To be kind to others, be kind to yourself first.

People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.

It's much more fun to be ugly.

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

The only guide to man is his conscience.