“If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before h...”

“Since when do grown men and women who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership " require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't perm...”

“Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.”

“Since when do grown men and women who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership " require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permi...”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.It's not a weakness.It's your best strength.”

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”