People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

It's possible to love without sacrificing-but who would notice? For love is demonstrated only through sacrifice-without it, love is invisible.

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will.

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, human nature.

The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.

I sublet place to place with my fiancé. We don't really have a home. I haven't had a proper home for years.

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.