Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

I was always an overachiever.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

I keep hearing that love isn't a logical emotion. Should I worry about that?

If God thought it necessary to offer rewards for love, your God must be immoral.

What is more immoral than war?

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.

You don't have to do anything! If you enjoy life at this level, if you feel this is the ultimate for you, you can have this experience over and over and over again!

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.