To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

I may be clean cut on the outside, but make no mistake... I like to get very, very dirty when nobody's looking.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.

I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.