I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.

Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?