Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didnt get you very far, because there werent too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldnt be both.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

You know they're just looking for wrinkles and cellulite.

I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student.

Young people, look to your Bible when thinking about any matter, including getting married.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

Software engineering economics.

Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black people.

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.