Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

When suffering comes, learn to trust each day into God’s hands . . . let your lips be filled with prayer and praise.

I like to stay happy, and I like to live life light and make the best of life.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

My agenda will never change from making good music and staying relevant.

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.