I’ll accept your apology on one condition.” He folded his arms across his chest. “Anything?” “You trust me.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.

Where is your water? Know your garden.

Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.

Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that.

I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.

None of the Christian religions do [interest me]. They're all outer-directed.

I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that.

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.