I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

I swear I've good morals. It's just that bad ones befriend me. I'm a friendly person, you know. But I will talk to them. Believe you me.

... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

Sean, as always, gets by on one word while everyone else needs five or six.

Many paths lead to the Door of Enlightenment. Beware those that proclaim there is but one.

My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.