I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

I don't want to lose you, but I don't want to use you just to have someone by my side.

There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.

I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.