Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.

The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

How can I seek forgiveness for sins I haven't committed yet?

Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

Can you imagine what it would be like to look into somebody's eyes and know that their destiny is so much greater than yours, that you will never compete? You will always be left behind.

I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

Life is short, have dessert first.