I never liked telling war stories. Some men love to tell them. Hell, some men need to. They need to convince themselves that the war is over. But I'm not one of them.

They say in death our war is over. I don't believe that.

Ask not what your country can do for you

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.