The love of my life is the love between friends.

I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.

A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.

He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.