If you ask every American out there what kind of a people we are, we would all say, "Oh, we're really good people. We do good things in the world." Then you go around the world and ask what America is like, there's a completely different conceptualization of what we are.

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground.

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.