Work is of two kinds: first altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second telling other people to do so.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct if you listen to it will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood isn't it?

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach one that writing is hard work and two that you have to give up a great deal of life your personal life to be a writer.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth and telling the truth has never hurt me.

There are two ways of lying. One not telling the truth and the other making up statistics.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep serious way.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats we will stop telling the truth about them.