We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.

She doesn't trust easily, but when she does it's always with the devil himself.

Let's make beautiful music together, Emery Carmichael.

She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

Mothers of America / let your kids go to the movies!

To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

What seems over your head is always under His feet.

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.