Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

Early numbers are always wrong.

I love the morning sun because it enlightens my heart and teaches me how to love others with an abundance of warmth and kindness.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.

Cling to God, and leave all the rest to Him: He will not let you perish. Your soul is very dear to Him, He wishes to save it.

Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!

Every generation finds the drug it needs.