The world is full of promise and places and people and experiences that are dying to be explored.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

Sisters-the ones we share last names with and the ones we choose-are the lining of every woman's soul.

For if people could see- if women especially could see- what is real and true and how the elegant possession of what is in each of our individual hearts is what matters more than anything.

Family does not mean people with the same last name or the same DNA. It means people who care about you, who you trust, who you care about--people you can count on.

Whatever makes you crazy is what you were created to crack. Whatever makes you sleepless is what you were born to succeed in. Don’t give up!

Jesus worked all His life. But the greatest work that Jesus did was not in the carpenter’s shop . . .His greatest work was achieved in those three dark hours on Calvary . . . dying for us.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

Believe me, if I start getting sick, you’ll be the first to know since I’m sure it’ll be all over you. (Alix)

I grew up with all kinds of people.