And nobody had told them that they were short on time..

What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. ….

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'K….

Strengthen in us, O God, the work You have begun in us..

The future did not arrive..

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment..

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all..

My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an A….

I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may ….

My parents were true believers in the efficacy of American constitutional democracy, and I was thoroughly inculcated with reverence for what we the p….

And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the mot….

I am nothing that isn't professional..

I love a woman who can out-eat me..

I've had everything pierced at some point..

I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way, but I don't fee….

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised….

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed t….

Being on the air is and probably always will be the highest point for me..

There are new studies showing that young men and men with more progressive views of what a father should be - which is not just a helper and fun pare….

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!.

An unshared happiness is not happiness..