We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window.

It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.

If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

Meet every level of frustration with a greater level of character.