The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

My ego is my employee – and I, the witness, am its employer.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

Palming separates the men from the boys!

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Much awkwardness ensued.

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]