When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.