We were orphans before we were ever the sons of these songs.

I know formidable women, dozens of them, women who fight and who win... Noble women. Heroic ones.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.