President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people

The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.

If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

My joke about Aaron Sorkin is that The West Wing was a great show about democracy, run by Kim Jong-Il!

Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.