Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.