Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

The military is already sexually integrated.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.