People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.

I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves...But we can control those stories...I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them

You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.

Reality is seeing that the peace in a picture is a dream.

Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.