The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas

Learn, learn.

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.

Finding a wife is easy

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.

I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.