Swimming is simply moving meditation.

My secret to happiness? Keep sadness to yourself

If you're comfortable with solitude, being left out is not a problem

Recognize and appreciate little things, and enjoy what Life has to offer

An effective life is not determined by how long you lived

One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.

No one's dropped a cent - there's no negative ads up against Donald Trump in Iowa which is crazy to think about.

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.

Yeah, I was a florist. I went to floristry school.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.