But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

We are the royal children of God, and He is always busy doing what He knows is best for us. But we must ensure that our frequent thoughts and beliefs aren't going against our true destiny.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

Lea, you know you should never have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

It'd be great to be in a position where you can make choices regardless of money. My tastes are always gonna lead me to go for the amazing project where I'm being paid in Turkish cantaloupes.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.