If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.

You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what's possible.

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

I want people to know that there's gonna be a bad part in your life and you have to overcome it to get to the good.

Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together.

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.