One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

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.

The best teacher is he who kindles the fire of imaginations and does not fill minds with only information.

You need to invest your time on earth

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

I've been a workaholic since I was 18.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

I don’t want to be a lonely governor.

There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.