I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

It wasnt until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.

My father loves his country and is ready to lead it. In my fathers gut: integrity.

I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.

Remember that everything that is happening around you, good or bad, is in some way conspiring to help you.

like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.

Just write, if you open the gate it gets better and better.

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

I have never been disappointed upon asking microorganisms for whatever I wanted.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.