"You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an e..."
"You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children."
"In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out."
"I like to say that I don't have the slightest doubt that Barack Obama read me in the early 80s. It's the kind of person he was!"
"The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W. Bush."
"It seems everybody has been somehow affected by cancer, either through a relative or a close friend or somewhere, and they know how devastating cancer can be. And they see me, and I refuse to let it affect how I live and what I do."
"I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'"
"A lot of rappers say 'I'm talking about stuff that goes on, what I grew up in, that I know about.' And these journalists say, 'Yeah, but you're making 80 million dollars, that stuff's not about you.' Look how long he's been making 80 million. He grew up poor in an urban city and the things he's experienced and knows."
"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
"The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way."
"Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't."
"There are a lot of areas where Republicans can take aspects of Millennials' lives and really speak policy to them."
"Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us."
"I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality."
"According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill."
"It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing."
"I have watched people around members of the royal family for a long time now, and something very strange happens to them. They turn into sycophants."
"For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both."
"The 'Vampire of Ropraz' claims to be based on a true story, but the name of Rosa's father matches that of a notable Swiss artist and restorer. The eventual suspect has the overlong teeth and shambling menace of a would-be vampire, but Chessex leaves the real possibility of his guilt an open question."
"I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace."
"It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon."
"If the relentless personal maintenance plan has taken over your life, give it a rest."
"I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!"
"People mess up. They say things when their guard is down."
"I'm the first person to say don't equate between terrorism and Islam. But at the same time, I'm not going to pretend that there isn't a threat from some British Muslim homegrown extremists."
"My Safari bookmarks only sync intermittently across my Apple devices. Unlike Amazon's Kindle app for Apple products, the company's iBooks doesn't remember where I left off unless I set a bookmark."
