When all else fails, tell the truth.

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore.

I wish I had been more interested or learned sooner, but I didn’t, and now I must face the consequences.

Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.

I am worn to a raveling.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't

You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.

Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

I'm discriminated against all the time.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.