Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true.Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.