My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

My eye, though, is set on Miley [Cyrus].

My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.

Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.

God wants us to practice on Earth what we're going to do forever in eternity.