In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and get on with the day.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.

I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.

Apologizing is like spring cleaning.

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.

...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?

There is never enough time for fun.

Love is the soul of God

I think in our desire to create a better America, we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome.

Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

Start out by celebrating the best in the situation because it allows us to fall in love with it, which connects us to our passion and emancipates the energy.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.