My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

A lion gains nothing from boasting to a dog.

To broaden one's prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.

I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen.... and someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last.

Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway.

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.