“Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.”

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important. ”

“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.”

“Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.”

“This book is a guide to living life the right way, like the Bible is for crazies and weak people (JK, bro), this book should be to you.”

“Trust, like Christ-like love, is to be extended not because others deserve it but because they need it, because they can become trustworthy (or loving) by being nurtured in a community of trust and love. We need to extend trust, even if doing so makes us vulnerable to pain and great cost, in order to save our own souls.”

“6th grade. My dog, Katie, is hit by a car and killed. A mean girl during recess says it committed suicide because it didn't love me. I cry and swear revenge on mankind.”