I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there’s still work to get done.

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn’t come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

I’ve done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

Directing is: you’re overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you’re still thinking about it.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It’s what really interests me. I’m a competitor, but I also feel like I’m contributing, whether it’s working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal – but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.