Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. Thats what I will be above and beyond everything else.

I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

Every woman is insecure, no matter how beautiful they are.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

How easy it was to fall in love with every moment of her existence!

That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.