When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

What do we know but that we face one another in this place?