Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great to be part of this wonderful country.

They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.

I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.

True children of God experience pleasure in giving.

We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.

A few years ago, a taxi driver told me about a club & a dog. A waiter spoke to me about ladders today. Life is full of lessons for those who listen.

The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.

I usually feel something before I know it.

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.