So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.

The courage to try again is daring spirit.

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

The stage calls my name.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

There are more short-term goals right now the way I see it, that I feel are more important right now than maybe the 1,000 points.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.