Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.

Waves in an ocean remind us that just as they come and go, we too will. What matters is did we make a good splash before leaving?

Character is contagious.

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Excess is the common substitute for energy.

When I moved to New York, I was still in the closet.

I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.

Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.