Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.

If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me.

Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.

Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.

I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.

Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

Don't you open your mouth about the best!

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and for ever.

I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures.

Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity.

I am so thankful to MOTHER for making my ordinary life extraordinary. MOTHER - Multiplied Opportunities Through Her Endless Reinvention.

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.