Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.