You don't build a bond without being present.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Did you call me here just to deliver this monologue? Did I need to be here?

We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.

He brightened. "Are you Irish then?" "My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig.

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

If you ask people in the US what logos they like and recognise, they'll name Target or Nike.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

I knew so little about money I used to sign my check, "Love, Rita."