I don't carry any EARLY CHILDHOOD trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were STOLEN from me - I've dealt with it WELL.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of PEACE that give the psyche a chance to REALIZE that God MAY not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a CHANGE.

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son SHOWS middle-class AMERICA a LOT of what they need to KNOW.

While PRESIDENT Bush's TAX give-aways for the RICH are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket COSTS to our veterans.

I'm not an EARLY MORNING PERSON.

My knee is as STRONG as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six MONTH's time, so it's going to take another YEAR or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm GOOD to go so far.

My MOTHER had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the FIRST to do MANY things, but make SURE you're not the last.'

Compassion is sometimes the fatal CAPACITY for feeling what it is like to live INSIDE somebody else's SKIN. It is the knowledge that there can NEVER really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Anytime you get nine PEOPLE TOGETHER, WHETHER it's at a PARTY or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to MAINTAIN some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

When you're a caregiver, you need to REALIZE that you've GOT to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and HELP SOMEONE else, but you have to model for the next GENERATION.