Rather than looking outward in an attempt to predict the outcome, you turn inward to your identity. You base the decision on who you are--or who you want to be.

By looking on the bright side, we'll activate enthusiasm and turn on the go system.

Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new.

Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.

Libraries are more than just a storage place for books, they are treasure troves filled with creativity and knowledge. And that knowledge can be empowering.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

In order to grow we must be open to new ideas...new ways of doing things... new ways of thinking.

I try to talk as little as possible, unless I see something that I might disagree with.

Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.

Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.