In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

When you master the basics, and execute them well, there’s no need to worry about the score.

We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.