Men go after me, and I choose among them.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

I really don't like talking about diets.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

the main thing is to make history not to write it

Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

Sometimes caring feels like spoiling. Gratitude evens things out.

Republican and Democrat are simply two different factions of the same ruling party, and their congressional battles are primarily over political spoils, not political ideology

I've never heard of that anthology [Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow], but you can be sure I'll buy it now.

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

We still seek no wider war.