To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

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

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.