Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives.

You don't get what you don't ask for