“A lot of people telling the same story from their various points of view.”

We’re always hardest on our own work, I guess.

A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.

Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can’t have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.

I just want to make a point that it’s not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it’s the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve

I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.

After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?

These are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.