I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

God dwells within me. As me.

It's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.