You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

Often things are as bad as they seem.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of.

Prayer teaches us the grace of persistent effort.

Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all over again in them and with them.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Yeah, that was my best scoreless game ever.

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

There are no free lunches on welfare.

Try something different. Surrender.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.