Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

Our lives improve only when we take chances...and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

I'm still one who says that we can get rid of the Internal Revenue Service if we would pass the fair tax, which is a tax on consumption rather than a tax on people's income, and move power back where the founders believed it should have been all along.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

Cavalli is all about being a strong woman - being sexy and powerful. Which is how we'd like to feel, all of the time! The clothes are very strong and sexy - quite Amazonian. And you feel like that yourself when you're wearing the clothes.

As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Rome wasn't built in a day

I.B.M. was not really bringing their best technologies to India. They were dumping old machines in the country that had been thrown away in the rest of the world 10 years before.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they're some of my closest friends.

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

I have never believed in my own ability to succeed at everything. I recognize I'm a human being like everybody else, and I make mistakes and fall short time and again.