When everything seems to be lacking integrity, you find it in yourself.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Lawyers are lubricants are complicated social intercourse.

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

I do have to prioritize my end-of-the-world documents.

You can LOBBY anyone. It is the great equalizer." – Chief of Staff Russell Jackson

Protests can sometimes, necessarily, simplify things.

We need heroes who'll inspire us so that maybe next time we'll dig a little deeper and find our best self.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty, ” they’d joke.Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

Rivers are lucky. They can only move in one direction.

you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Remember that the old lady who's taking forever in line is someone's grandma

We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.