I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

I think people need to guard themselves in what they watch and what they listen to because I think that does affect who they are and why they do what they do.

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

If you don't know what it is you want - and I mean specifically - then you won't even know when you have it.

Hillary Clinton skated because she's running for president. She clearly violated the law.

I find that with some girls, the words work and education have gotten a bad rap.

Whatever our calling, regardless of our fears or anxieties, let us pray and then go and do.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.