I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

I was always an overachiever.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

To start any thing is like to breathe in open air, to complete it is like to breathe in no air.

Bill Gates wasn't born rich but he wasn't poor either even before he discovered Microsoft, he was just waiting for a connecting flight to the boulevards of greatness.

There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.

Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.