If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.

I have no will power when it comes to sweets. I have a sweet tooth.

The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

Wars come and go; politics endure.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

A lot of people think that I'm a Michael Jackson impersonator.

"Well, we knew it. Women can't sell movies". That's what it used to be like. "Well, this movie did well, but it's a fluke."