My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

We become what we repeatedly do.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Take your past off life support.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

I'm not really one for regrets.

Trust me. I haven't been wrong yet.

Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.

Only when something becomes a problem for "me" as one of my goal orientated actions, do I pause in full stride, as it were, in order to learn the competencies that I lack.

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.