My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

You cannot replay time.

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!

I never forget a face but in your case I'll make an exception.

I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

The courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine Destiny.

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.