I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

Dedicate time to yourself and do things that help you grow

What do you have in mind - inhumement, entombment, inurnment, interment? Some people lately just prefer in-sarcophogus-ment.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.

Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.

A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.