It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Revenge never ends until everything and everyone around it is destroyed. A vengeful heart never rests.

Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.