Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

There are many instances in which those at the uppermost levels of the White House were feeling the President [Barack Obama] was not fully informed of the flow of events and, in some cases, where policies were going in the White House.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.