Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.