People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.