One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
The only thing that separates any one of us from excellence is fear and the opposite of fear is faith. I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God’s business.
Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in ‘A Few Good Men’, “I CAN handle the truth.
Some of the best friends you’ll ever meet in your life, you’ll meet though your children – mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You’ll see. That’s the way it was for Bill and me. It’s one of the many gifts of parenting.
I’m going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they’ll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They’re so thirsty for it they’ll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there’s no water, they’ll drink the sand.
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it’s proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
There’s always failure. And there’s always disappointment. And there’s always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it’s not how our similarities work together; it’s how our differences work together.