Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable.

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

It's a lot easier to get your way if you have more than one way.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does. You'll feel so good you won't care.

The journey toward the heart is always a journey home.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.

You can't get old without living.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.