One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.

Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly.

But in the areas that matter most, a burst of energy and activity cannot reverse the consequences that accompany a season of neglect.

None of us plan--or intend--to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.

I just write when fear overtakes me.

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.