Barbara Quotes

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

to us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Time is clay. Go make something.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

"We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people."

Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.

One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement

Porches are America's lost rooms.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.