This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots.… fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.”―Distancing, Kantor (p.115)

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.

I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

You have to control the circumstances and things in your life. They should not control you

A storm is never quiet because it is always calling out to the rainbow.

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it.

In youth we learn in age we understand.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

There's no way you ask Sean Penn a question and then, you're gonna be HUGE !

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

Truth crushed to the earth will rise again!