Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

He who is brave is free.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Words are loaded pistols.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.