Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.

There are no ordinary moments.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does

The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.