My dream had been shattered, but then re-created, fashioned into something with more meaning and becoming more precious.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.

Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.

The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'

The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.