When you are alone you can easily judge yourself.

You can steal someone's work but you can't steal the experience that he has gained from that work.

A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading.

...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.