Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be.

Struggle isn't fun but it's an opportunity to be brave.

You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.

The softest thing I've ever heard are the wind chimes in my backyard. They are soft and cool and mellow.

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

National campaigns are tough. Yes, you have to be prepared to be attacked, and I have to tell you, if you get elected, you have to also be prepared.

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.