Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused, it can be deadly.

We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

It’s better to bite your tongue than to eat your words.

There’s more to life than increasing its speed.

People stop trying when there’s no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.

Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.

It’s your life to live. Own it! You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

What counts that we’re not counting?

You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren’t supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.

Many people are actually poor because the only thing they have is money.

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.