I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part

Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.

Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.