Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

I am most right because I realize I am most wrong

With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.

If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.

I'm all right, not as good as my mom is. Maybe because I don't have kids.

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.