I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.

Power ... was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

Nature is always wise in every part.

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

We often need to be refreshed.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college