The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

When someone gives me either a democratic or republican pamphlet, I throw it in their face. I’m a librarian, damn it! We only take book donations.

Your journey might seem very long and hard, but bear in mind that sooner or later your struggles would become the past, and your rewards would become the present.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

Endangered species are our friends.