Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Sigmund Freud

Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.

Demosthenes

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Lucinda Williams

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Voltaire

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Robert Casey

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

John Ruskin

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Sitting Bull

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

J.K. Rowling

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Laurence Hope Nicolson

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No --who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside--will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.

Alexander Maclaren

Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Richard De Bury

I have to travel a lot for work.

James Purefoy