When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

USA Today hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

I've been incredibly blessed.