I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

Any woman can open her mouth and speak to a man. It takes a special woman to open her mouth and strengthen a man.

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with.

At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.