I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Some might wonder that the two men should consider themselves to be old friends having only known each other for four years

With prayer of thanks, I wait in patient for God to act.

I don't have to get married to grow up!

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

I'm not a fan of capris. They actually shorten my legs.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

The world has changed around Europe. It is not only the migration crisis that has shown Europe is not up for challenge.