Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.