People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

It's a lot easier to get your way if you have more than one way.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does. You'll feel so good you won't care.

The journey toward the heart is always a journey home.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.

Train your mind to see the opportunity in every adversity.

You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know.

For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Do nothing immoderate.

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.