I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

We can see, from California to New York, from Maine to Florida, Seattle to New Mexico - everywhere there are women's groups. Everywhere there are women who have gotten together to examine global warming, and women who have gotten together to prepare each other for single parenting - there are women who have come together to be supportive to those whose mates are in prison, male or female, partners are in prison. All sorts of gatherings of women. I mean, I'm just celebrating my 80th year on this planet, and I look back 50 years ago and there was nothing like that.

The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.