I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.

I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.