I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.

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.

Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.

'You must've been waiting for someone like me to come along, ' I said. I meant, because of the big bed. But Larry looked at me all funny and said, 'Yes, I think I was.'

We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

I don’t have too many books, I have too little shelving.

My mother raised me to be a writer.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.