Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

Don't let other people tell you who you are.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

It is fine to be committed to work, but our minds need time to recover and our bodies need to move.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.