I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and you've got your friends to support you an….

How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transc….

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement..

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afl….

When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering fr….

The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yours….

being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be….

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die..

Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double wham….

I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak….

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod..

I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexis….

I'm just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I had no steering. I do think it's true th….

I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow," that that's really th….

Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dyi….

So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy.….

I think Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're at the end of the 100 ….

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself..

I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnis….

That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whi….

At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I rememb….