I think in losing we find out who that person really is.

I was born in the Midwest, where "salad" was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like,"A vegetarian's coming to dinner," so they serve those.

I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

Its important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

I feel great physically. I feel really good.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.