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.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.