A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born.

Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.

it isn't that we're alone or not alonewhose voice do you want mine? yours?

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.