A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.

It was impossible to convince someone to live for his own sake. But he often thought it would be a more effective treatment to make people feel more urgently the necessity of living for others.

If you think you stink, you probably do.

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.

To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.