Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.