Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others..

Do what you're doing while you're doing it..

My sister was like my surrogate mother here, in Washington, with very much of the same persuasions as my mother. Even when friends came from home tha….

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy..

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being….

And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the ….

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner..

It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother….

My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills..

Do nothing immoderate..

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as importa….

What feeds me destroys me..

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook..

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that..

My mother handed me my sister and turned on the television. My sister's fingers wrapped around my earlobes, and she squeezed and made a sort-of laugh….

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged..

Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be..

Bolivar cannot carry double.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of..

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all..