In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

...sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ...

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.

Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

America already is great, but we are great because we are good, and we will respect one another, and we will work with one another, and we will celebrate our diversity.

My life is only half full When I receive. My heart is completely full Only when I give.

And either victory, or else a grave.