People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.

Though the wind was commanding the sand into even ridges, it couldn't control the sea.

My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.