I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.

It's hard to say 'No' and develop your moral fiber. That's why your school is so important.

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

I'm always praying for a part that would be something that I could be really proud of, in which I could use the gifts God gave me in a positive way.

A spiritual connection with someone lasts forever, even when physical presence fades.

Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap.

Say what's in your heart, Annie.''You're in my heart, Samuel.

Time is nothing absolute its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?

I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.

You must always be faster and better than the others.