While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

Love greatly.

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

Don't live only in your head. It's lonely and it's dangerous.

I always thought my mother was so damn cute!

Pity is something only weakness wants.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.