“I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.”

“My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.”

“Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.”

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”

“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”