It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.