Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.

The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.

I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character.

My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately.

Poverty is a mental virus, even if one could get a million, the mindset will always kick in.

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.