My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

Every travel is sacred.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.

Sometimes we're too focused on getting out of a situation that we don't think about what we can get out of the situation.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.