It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

Might without right makes blight

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

You are perfect, not tomorrow, not in the future, but today.

September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.

This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.

A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.

I absolutely love being a mother. It's been a blessing. It's fun and it's hard, but it's absolutely amazing.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

I am just an old-fashioned girl.