History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.

His lips ever so gently touched mine, and suddenly I felt everything stirring inside me grow wings, let loose, and fly.

Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.

Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.

It means that two people start loving each other. I guess because it can feel really sudden and because it's powerful. Like gravity--an unstoppable force.

There was something else I couldn't quite define--something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Freedom

What's he doing here anyway? And where is his shirt? I take a quick glance and swallow hard. Never Mind. The shirt can stay gone.

Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Don't fear, just live right.

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.

The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day.