Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor.

Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.

Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.

If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.

Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.

Opportunity may knock only once but it passes by your door every day.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

It’s you and me that matters to me and you.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

Chicago is a pretty good town.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

Beauty draws the seer towards the person seen; it invites them to know and have confidence in that person even without knowing the person intimately.

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.