Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time.

Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.

So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

We should want to evangelize because of the joy that God puts in our hearts. Ultimately, that's the best reason for sharing our faith.

I have crystals all around my home, both inside and out.

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.