I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

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.

If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be

I am deeply in love with you but you are so ethereal. I may not know how to touch your heart.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.

Every flutter in her chest when he sat beside her, every flush to her cheeks after a compliment, and every longer-than-average embrace would end tonight.

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

Justice is no longer a concern of the justice system.

A big hit is all part of the game. If you want to make a lot of big hits, you forget about the one you just made and move onto the next one.