We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

I feel strangely normal.

The center of our economic revival we'll be fixing our really horrendous, one-way street, horrible trade deals.

The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.