"Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends."

"Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?"

"My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969."

"It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"It is a essential truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I love not man the less, but Nature more."