I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.

I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet.

We're just going to go straight beer. No sense in diluting it.

I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid

Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?

There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.

We do not sponsor any form of terrorism anywhere in the world. Never have, never will

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid.

Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days

Happiness does not result from pleasure, but rather, from reaching one's goals.

I write because I want to give strength to myself

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.

Risk is the willingness to fail.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.