Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.

Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.

No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it.

One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.

In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

Powerful people can love without being loved back.

Fortune helps the brave.

I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.

If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.

When someone close to you dies, move seats.

For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required each day.

There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.