How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind.

Be disciplined enough to choose your network and be willing to sacrifice the circles that reduce your effectiveness and make you unproductive.

Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.

I just always want to be different - THE EXCEPTION - and this weekend knocked me right back to reality.And the reality is - I AM TRULY BLESSED ..

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.