Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.

Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power.

Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations and going home?

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises.

Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

Words are life. We are our words. Choose your words carefully.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

Find in yourself those human things which are universal.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.