President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

A basic tenet of healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

I threw his framed picture off my balcony just to hear my heart break.

I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

The biggest pitfall as you make your way through your life is impatience.