...unlike knowledge, understanding cannot be taught. It must be achieved.

Sometimes the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint.

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.

All of my life God has allowed me to share prospectives with people who are different. You cannot lead people whose prospective you are not willing to understand.

The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead.

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

We killed 6 innocent people, launching 22, I think $3 million apiece missiles on Baghdad...that's a little bit overdoing it.

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.