I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

I've had the same core group of friends that I've always had. We're surfing, so that definitely keeps you grounded.

I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

Love grows by service.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

I dont know how long Ill be trick or treating. Maybe Ill be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

He doesn't know what to make of me," Mat said softly. "How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.