I believe in recovery and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Say whatever, plan whatever (I really don't care), but the action and the result is the important the other is theory.

Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful

Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.

Quality control starts and ends with training.

No other person ever has, or ever will have, the unique blend of talents, strengths, and perspective that you have.

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

If I hadn’t left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn’t have met my husband and I wouldn’t have had the children that I’ve had. Life is interesting like that.