What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly.

We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.

The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.

Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.