The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility

A Leader is someone who can do everything him(her)self, but let's other people help him(her).

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

I've always wanted to come to Comic Con.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.