When perseverance becomes a force of habit, success becomes a guarantee.

When creativity is seen as more important than facts, we will find ourselves in a world where problems are solved more often than spoken of.

Children should not be taught to get a job or pursue a profession. Children should be taught to discover their passion and with it define their mission.

Your hereditary is not nearly as important as your legacy.

To live on the edge requires an exceptional ability to balance.

Politics, like insurance, security, pharmaceutical and religious institutions all work the same. They sell the idea of a threat along with the antidote. Marketing 101.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.

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The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been

Where law ends there tyranny begins.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

I have a dream of getting a visa, which is a dream that many people have so they can leave their countries to come someplace else, specifically they want to come to the United States.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'