My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

My life really began when I married my husband.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

We are all born equal, and even if we are not, the future is still in our hands.

Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.

Food and clothes sustain Body and life; I advise you to learn Being as is. When it's time, I move my hermitage and go, And there's nothing To be left behind.

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

I'm not into wrinkles.