I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.