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

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.

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.'

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Morrie, ” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?”“You bet, ” Morrie whispered.

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

It was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.

The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.

You threaten my son, you threaten me.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.