People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

Now is the time to move this country forward.

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

For me, I learned from my father that when it's over, it's over.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.