Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

There is more power in unity than division.

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.

Why destroy this Morn, by a Past that is dead & Gone and a Future not yet Born!

Maybe one day we'd become fiction.

From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.

Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.

Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.

I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.

Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.