I walk my dog every morning.

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

He protected me. He killed for me. He would do anything for me.

I may be forty but every morning when I get up I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately there's never one around.

Ay me! for aught that I ever could read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love never did run smooth.

As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.