If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

A woman can be in charge!

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

Every actor has their stalker.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Don’t under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don’t think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground.

The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow.

We don't have home movies in my family. We have people's exhibit A.

Athlete or not, I’m going to make sure you know how to read.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.

Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.