...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it.

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.