The atmosphere you create influence the reception the other person will give you.

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.

Listen with the will to learn.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process.

He wanted to go home to the place that he hated.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.

My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.