If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.