A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.