Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

She's still small and I still want to put her in my pocket.-Seven Chillman, classmate

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.

When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.