They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.

Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.

Don't go around saying, "Oh if only I did so and so then so and so would not have happened!Instead, be thankful it happened.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let's dance!

I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

When I said "the pocket of the banks," it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.

Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

I never write a play with an eye to film.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.