I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.

I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.

It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.

Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps.

I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.

Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.

Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them

the song of the deadheavy as rain on the wide banana leaveshard as drums

A little step every day makes you reach your final destination. Don't be hasty, take it easy your ultimate goal is just a few steps away.

You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too early. We cannot be free until they are free.

I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.