I constantly looked for motherly protection.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

Problems are everywhere, so are Solutions. Unfortunately, we see more of the Problems than the Solutions.-RVM

Do not wait to know you are dying before you start living.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.