I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.