Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

What you focus on grows!

A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

I think that I'm trying to hopefully change my children's ideas about what is possible, and about what is possible for them.

A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear!

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.