You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

We become what we repeatedly do.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.

The word is like a seed, and the human mind is so fertile, but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for.

You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.

And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn't possible.

Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS.

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.