"I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage."

"My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy."

"I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus."

"My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents."

"I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."

"Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master."