I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

The life you yearn of living and your destiny is co-created in your here-and-now awareness, choices made and actions taken. Live NOW. Don't wait till death bed wishing, ...

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].

I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period.

Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.