We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes.

A man will be known by his books.

Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.

It takes just a step to meet a potential customer!

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

God uses no one until He first puts them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm.

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.