I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Time had changed the magical to mundane

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Sometimes careful just isn’t good enough.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

You never know how your work is going to be received.

Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it.

I just get my news from the Internet.

Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.