No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

Folks in Irihs might not be as welcoming as they were here. Resentment lingers.''So we're going to be in danger.''No more than any other day of your life.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

I don't know what the big deal about Cracker Jack is. Did you ever go buy a pack of Cracker Jack, thinking you'd get a prize and find no prize in the box? (pause) Here's the pitch.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.