Barack Obama is a very impressive human being.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Everything on Twitter is true.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Gratitude is the secret to happiness.

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

I've got four dogs, and I just don't do dog doo. I'm a diva when it comes to that.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

No art goes unmediated by other art.

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?