Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

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.

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

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.'

Like a firework, a person’s life flashed brightest right before expiration.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we don't want to know that you poop.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.