Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.
Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
I think it's good that I get scared because, if you never get scared, you don't have any need for guts.
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still waiting for clarity on the future.
Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.
Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.
It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
