from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you’d better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.

He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

The important thing right now is that the economy still needs customers. We still need people to go out there and spend money.

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.

The best competition I have is against myself to become better

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.