If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not.

Every time you practice a weakness, you feed it. And the things you feed grow in your life

It takes a long time to become young.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.