The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them

Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.

When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out.

Mom's smiles were the most beautiful thing in the world, and they almost always made things better. They almost even made an early bedtime okay, but not quite.

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

I have to prove myself five times over.

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward