When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.