What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people

Vertue never growes old.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.