The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.

I will get stronger. I will return.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all?

Love always flows. When we hinder it's path, it gets flooded, destroys everything around it.

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

What scares me is how easily it happened.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.