The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.

How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe.

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

After all it is not what you make, it is what you keep or pass on.

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.