It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

Being a lady does not require silence.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

For the first time in his life Faris felt happy and for only the second time in his life he felt he’d found a friend, and that was worth being crazy for.

Praise is pushing back my daily worries and impending tasks to acknowledge my always present, never changing God.

Where's the guy who gave me Twinkies and Coke?

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

My hair is always a big topic. It is just hair.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.