Time spent worrying - about anything - provides no emotional or physical benefit to us

But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.

He was the ultimate experiment in Nature Versus Nurture, and she imagined he must be engaged in a constant battle between what he was and what he wanted to be.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.