As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Valentines Day is the Super Bowl of relationships. If you're alone that night you didn't make the cut.

Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.