Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.'
How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
