The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you.

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.

I'm going to the lobby to sign babies and kiss CDs.

War is not women's history.