Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

Doubt is a cancerous mindset that kills dreams before it becomes a reality. It destroys your passion and enthusiasm before you take a step. Kill doubt with faith.

Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.

Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

My mom raised me to be successful and not be a knucklehead and do the wrong things. She still talks to me to this day about those things.

If I lose, I lose. Ill do it on my terms.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

It seems that nearly every American either has a share of federal spending or has a close relative who does.