Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

A rumbling volcano is like a pimple.You know that they're both going to explode, but you just don't know when.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

People can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs.

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light. Light is our paintbrush and it is a most willing tool in the hands of the one who studies it with a sufficient care.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.