Moods should be heard but never danced to.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

All of the authoritative books on bears seem to agree on one thing: if you're close enough to a bear to cause it to change its activity pattern, you're too close, and in possible danger.

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

Many Sunnis joined Islamic State because they felt they were being treated poorly. Winning back their trust is the primary task of the new government. That will be difficult, but it is possible.

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

I don't like the Pippa Middleton's face. She should only show her back.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.