I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.

In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.

The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

Great souls are great inspirers.

I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

No relationship is perfect and no human being is perfect.

I have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.

People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.