The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. You know what I mean? I’ve always liked that phrase “He was visited by grief,” because that’s really what it is. Grief is its own thing. It’s not like it’s in me and I’m going to deal with it. It’s a thing, and you have to be okay with its presence. If you try to ignore it, it will be like a wolf at your door.

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.

You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.

Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news.

Bill Moyers is everything I never aspire to be: Calm, Thoughtful, and Informative.