I've always lived by the ocean and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

I don't want to jump the gun, [but] I will tell you, though, that my goal is to have the best possible government.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.