Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.

If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.