One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

If people want to believe in Hollywood movies, let them believe in Hollywood movies. Being romantic is not a disease.

The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the “world, ” and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.

I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold.

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

God has destined you to soar. You have victory, freedom and excellence on the inside.

Don't coast through life without a passion.

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.