So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.

If the human brain is really capable of having 60, 000 to 80, 000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.

Don [ Handfield] was actually one of the first guys I met in town back in '94. He was an actor and a writer and all this stuff.

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.