I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.

Always grow with changes and not against them.

Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

Stretching exercises in the morning for face & body or my body feels heavy and I can't do anything else.