Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

I fly like paper, get high like planes If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.