In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.

To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.

I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career

At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way. We'd love to see this activity.

Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.