Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.

Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

We'll make a bunker hill of it.

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious, detailed work.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.