I'm a mom so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions my Rich and Skinny and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured human nature will cure itself perhaps.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

Millions of men have lived to fight build palaces and boundaries shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Although I do wrong I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature like other men. No man lives without fault.

With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

The mountains the forest and the sea render men savage they develop the fierce but yet do not destroy the human.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane human being has ever given his assent.