People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader

If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

I don't need any more money.