I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

My kingdom has fallen because I had built it with power, but the kingdom of Jesus Christ will last forever because it was built on love. - Napoleon Bonaparte

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Lies can build large palaces of sand.....I wanna live in a small hut of trust

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.