I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.

Everything we say or don't say makes an imprint on our child's heart.

Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

Growing up in a house with six brothers and sisters is a lot like being on a tour bus. There's not a whole lot of private space, so you figure out how to make it work.

I prefer a woman's way of dealing with things.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.