Some people grow under responsibility

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.

I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

The effort of Reince Priebus and the RNC to reach out to movement conservatives has been impressive and will, I believe pay great dividends come election time

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

I find that I'm at my least creative point when I am doing something that I've done in repetition and I know all the rules - I never break the rules because I know them.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.