While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

I'm going to Hell in a basketWeaved in from my sins, Like wickerWith little Wiccan tiesAs if I'm a witchAccused.

Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Obviously people in Seattle love a little more sun but also nothing is built for it, i miss my rain.

My class is not a three ring circus.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.