We are not perfect human beings, nor do we have to pretend to be, but it is necessary for us to be the best version of ourselves we can be.

If you fall, I'll be the there

Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.

Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Impossible is relative.

I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.