While winners were fully engaged with writing some great chapters in their lives, failures were busy trying to edit their past negative experiences.

It was deflating to realize how much my own family's quality of life might improve if I replaced myself with a Fundamentalist stay-at-home daughter.

Patience is the virtue that forges great men.

The most dangerous guy at my school-the lone person who makes me feel safe-is reveling in the way I am touching him.

Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.