We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.

We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

LIFE IS NEVER OVER.

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature.

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.