In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.

He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Your strength lies in your Hope. Your salvation lies in your Faith.

Life is too meaningful to die.

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.