I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.