The problem with parents is that they're adults.

See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.

You’re just begging for a piece of me, you know that?” she growled. “I don’t know what gave you the idea I've lowered my standards, but I assure you, I haven’t. I want no part of you.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress like I used to.

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

Faith is the yes of the heart.

We can meet the obligations of Social security and Medicare. If we stay on the path that your party has us on, we'll be in a mountain range of debt and we're gonna face hard choices.

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.