Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

I aspire to be useful.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.

This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.

Every human desires peace and happiness, but only a few have the goal to attain those.

There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

Whenever people ask me if it's okay to stop watching "The Leftovers," I always say OF COURSE IT IS.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.