Lonely was much better than alone.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder

Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.