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

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.

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.'

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Anything is Possible!

I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.

Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

There is no plummet to sound another's soul.