If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.

Humour is completed by an audience.

I believe there's a strong difference between something being good and something being successful. The successful thing is something we have no control over.

They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back.

Elections have consequences.

If you do not clean up your sociaty now, therefore the legacy you have left for your children is nothing other than an unjust society.

When you don't know what to do with yourself, do something for someone else.

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.