One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say.

Life is surprises, try not to expect everything.

No one is born on Mt. Cleverest. We all have to travel up there!

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing

I will work and fight for stem cell research.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.