The fish you release maybe a gift to another, as it may have been a gift to you.
I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.
I don't want to get rich - just live good.
I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.
I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.
For more than 60 years, the United States has stood by our allies and partners in the Asia Pacific. That includes our defence partnership with Singapore, which stretches back more than two decades.