Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

Wonderful theory, wrong species.

If you push through the hard days you can get through anything.

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

pain can work form the outside in.

It takes a tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know

The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.