The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.

Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.