Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.

You have to have a strong team around you [being a president].

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

My son gave me a nice bottle of cologne - Eau de Owe.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.