By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

When you forget yourself and your fear, when you get beyond self-consciousness because your mind is thinking about what you are trying to communicate, you become a better communicator

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.