"It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'"

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time."

"Bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

"A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."

"I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves."

"I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts."