The highest distinction is service to others.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

You can't blame anyone else, ..., no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Never love someone with expecting return. Love is love's reward.

Begin asking how you may be of service and you will soon discover that the true gift is in your giving.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?

Having four kids of my own, fifth one on the way... I think with "Junior," what's happened over the last three years is this program's been implemented across schools.

Energy Medicine is the last great frontier in medicine.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.