The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

The smartest fish are still in the sea.

It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.

Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep.

Our political divides have become our personal divides.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

I enjoy seeing new places.

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.