It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

If you do not completely accept yourself, you can not love yourself fully. It would be hard to love anything unconditionally.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

No.'It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's empowering.

I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.

Never mistake motion for progress.

You need to face what you're running from

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.