The urgent hopefulness of a seriously underdog politician with a lot of true believers refusing to give up.
To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.
When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.