See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power.

Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations and going home?

Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.

All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises.

Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)

We are a fallen species, spitting on the gift of salvation. Humanity is irredeemable.

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

It was everything I hoped it would be. I want you to know I would have waited another sixteen years to be able to feel that with you again.

In pursuing a ‘way, ’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.