“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”

“I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”

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

“Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.”

“Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.”

“Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and ...”

“We all look. The lucky find. The wise accept.”

“I have my Lucky Charms in the morning, and I feel magical.”

“At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go.”

“Only wise men look for new wisdom.”

“This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it i...”