I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.

I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

What people never understand is that depression isn't about the outside

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.

You look at the Middle East, it's a total mess.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.

I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves