An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.