Barbara Quotes

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

I was country when country wasn't cool.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

Producing the vibration of love is based on your ability to feel deep pain...go into those feelings...and to find peace once again.

How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?

Any religion is a perspective upon existence.

Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.

Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

In the midst of events there is no perspective.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

Human behavior is timeless.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

A conversation isn't a competition.

The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.

Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.

Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.

I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.

I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.

Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.