I will get stronger. I will return.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

I didn't see what was in front of me until I thought it might be taken away. - Sam

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

This is what I signed up for. I’m not here going ‘Oh, they’re so mean to me, and it’s so hard for me.’ What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight. They pay me for it.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

I love being a mom. Being a mother is my favorite thing ever.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.