Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

When the mind gets a solution [settlement], it is considered religion. It is considered irreligion when the mind does not get a solution.

I had a dream that boys would act like men for once…then I woke up.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.

I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

The American dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay.

Keeping things 'just in case' indicates a lack of trust in the future.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do.