It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Our brightest dreams and our greatest fears are just over the horizon.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.

I am simply the very best sports entertainer

If we could read minds, we wouldn't need headsets.