Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there.

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.

I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.