"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."

"Society is at odds with itself."

"I keep working because I learn something new all the time."

"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor."

"I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again."

"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."