When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water.

Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.

Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.

It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear.

There's no such thing as having something to fall back on in life, there's passion, talent, skills, compassion and purpose. Choice is a prerequisite

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.

I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.