States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

Hope has a way of casting shadows on the truth.

If you do not get the chills when you set your goal you're not setting big enough goals.

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.

I like to highlight people's superpowers.

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

I didn't really want to kill myself, it just made me feel better to know I could if I wanted to.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.