Don't underestimate kindess, gentleness and patience in a man.

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

Agree with an idiot and you're only one step away from turning into one yourself.

America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.

There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.

I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.