I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

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.'

emotion untempered by reason is social suicide

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

Beyond the dark water of the womb there is an entire universe to be dealt with.

Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.

It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.