You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

She's as plastic as you are! I'm telling you, it's a bad idea. If the two of you have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisherprice stamped on their butts!

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

Within you is everything you need

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

I've come out of seeing death and chosen to focus on the life that's sprouting everywhere, like flowers. And I want to help feed the flowers.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.