"In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball."

“Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet”

“But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time.”

Source : Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.236, Penguin

“Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people who for eight years couldn't remember anything.”

“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”

“When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view”

“I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.”

“It's improper to use the egg roll for political purposes.”

Source : "Gay Group Plans Big Turnout for White House Easter Egg Roll". www.foxnews.com. January 20, 2006.

“It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.”