I just have always wanted to shave my head. I think every woman should just do it once in her lifetime.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is.

Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

I just fought with all my heart. I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

Love is the essence of the universe,. Love in action is service.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.