The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow and survive. If it does, it’s not confidence at all…it’s ego.

I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.

There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.

The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

My love of books was all that saved me.

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.