Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you.

I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.