No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Beware the man of a single book.