I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted.

I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!

Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.

We must change the culture of politics first.

Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.

I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.

I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.

Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas, " I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.

A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.