we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.

We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.

Not every book is for every reader.

...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man...

Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!

...we are our flaws, but they don't have to define us as either good or evil.

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

We're losing all our jobs. Look at Indiana. One of the reasons I won Indiana is because Carrier just announced they are leaving for Mexico.

As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

We should die relying on grace alone

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.