I'm glad folks think I look different, I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows.

Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

Sometimes I wake up at night and go, 'Oh, damn! Here we go again! What were they thinking? They gave me this role; don't they know I'm faking it?

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

We will drink what we thirst for and eat what we hunger for if we allow ourselves to be used for what we were created for!

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

The greatest need in the world today is faith in God and courage to do His will.

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.