"Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold."

"There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio."

"Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did."

"The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"When purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed."

"When purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."