We can never live in the past

A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

My most important identity now is as a mother.

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.

I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.