Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman...

He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile.

The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.

I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I’d never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

Human you are, and your religion, Humanism.

My family is very far from normal.

Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

For the most part, as a society, we are not happy with ourselves.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.

You have a responsibility when you have a large community.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.