But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

The greatest gift life can give you today is the promise of tomorrow.

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.

Oh, hell, I can’t go on a spiritual journey—I'm constipated.

The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.