I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to.

You can't fix stupid.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.

I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

The next time you have a thought... let it go.

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people send me pictures of 'treat yo self' all the time.

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

We're not going to have a wall [on Southern border] like now which is either non-existent or a joke.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.