Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

Positive thoughts shape a positive world.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.

Heaven is all around, Translated to sound.

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.