Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Your ultimate goal should be partners with your ultimate fear.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Even with my daughter now, I kind of know how my dad feels.

Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.