I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

You want me to lie to you?" said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.

Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.

New York doesn't buy stars, New York creates them.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.