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

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.

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

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.

Love me, desire me and pray for me.

Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

The only shortage we have today is the shortage we have between our own two ears.

The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.