The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

It was, however, time to accept fear for what it was, an emotion that was preventing them from being who they needed to be.

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don’t let life slip by unnoticed.

I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I'm happy. I'm easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don't know what I'd do without it.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.

All difficulties are easy when they are known.