"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."

"Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations."

"Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life..."

"Listen to your life. All moments are key moments."

"My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring--delight , sadness, joy, wisdom--and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings."

"Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been 'You are an important person just the way you are. You can make healthy decisions.' Maybe I'm going on too long, but I just feel that anything that allows a person to be more active in the control of his or her life, in a healthy way, is important."

"Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others."

"Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives."

"If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."

"There are three ways to ultimate success: "The "first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

"Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction."

"What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then."

"As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time."

"The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is."

"The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away."

"In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred."

"Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated."

"There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it."

"There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."

"There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth."

"The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed."

"The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team."

"Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to."

"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."