The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.