You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

No more Mr. Nice Guy.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

I draw inspiration from my travels, so I am always keeping my eye out for what is new in each corner of the country.

In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.