"When you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?"

"It is a radiant truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance."

"It is a unyielding truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

"Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books."

"Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."

"He who seeks peace must remember that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."