I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

The hardest thing about the business is minding your own

Dark with excessive bright.

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

Nobody controls me but my mama and God.

I enjoy making the decisions.

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!