What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.

The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.

The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable.

There cannot be too many glorious women.