With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

My life really began when I married my husband.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

The hidden keys of true happiness are individual responsibility and an incessant quest for joy.

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.

When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

What is well planted will not be uprooted.

Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.