There are many ways to serve.

I’m not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

Well I’ve been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I’ve done those completely on my own.

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I’ll be very happy.

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I’ve always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.

She Walks in Beauty Like the Night Of Cloudless Climes and Starry Skies.

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again – and that President is Al Gore.

I think one of my father’s great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women’s rights, equal justice, and they’ve passed that on to their children and grandchildren.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can’t understand it or that it will be boring.

I know my mother so well, so it’s hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don’t really know her personality.