It's really important that as women we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

Italians make you laugh and break your heart.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.

Don't think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today's program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you'll end up as number one or number 100.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

Love is the eternal first breath.