When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.

If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

The most precious contribution we can make here on Earth is to create the lives we want to be living, communicating in all ways, to everyone around us, that success is really possible.

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

Not how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief affect his accusation, the intimation of less-than.

The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.