Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude

Definition of money is the reward you get for solving people's problems.

Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.

I wasn't the same person I was eight months ago, and that was okay with me. Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?