If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it.

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.

To possess a rich life of wholeness that brings happiness into the soul

Hunger is insolent and will be fed.

With all my fans I got a family again.

I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.

It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.

Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.