Sometimes, all you can do... is sing.

I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

My faith keeps me strong.

I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

For Fate/ The willing leads, the unwilling drags along.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

In terms of existing, everything is equal.

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.