If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

My collage opens my heart to endless joy. I am an artist!

You are worth more than what people say or think of you.

Love is an unconditional gift, and not a bargain.

Why is it every time a madman's prayers are answered, a witch burns?

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

It Is possible to live in peace.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.