Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!

Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.

We must change the culture of politics first.

Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.

I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.

I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.

We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

Embrace compassion without exception.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.