You've got to admit failure sometimes.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Greatness is not a term of success, but of endurance.

A high functioning palate allows you to live without sugar and salt

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.