I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Always using the same methods is not God’s way

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Demographics is destiny.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.