We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

Money is for making things happen.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.