What is to give light must endure burning.

I've seen enough family photos in enough homes to know that the term 'suitable for framing' should have a stricter definition.

My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers.

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.