When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.
I have always said 'yes' to opportunities and experiences.
The men with stars on their shoulders supporting gays serving in the military is going to have a profound impact.
Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.
You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.
I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books. . . I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.
I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights. ' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.
The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.
A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.