My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

Just one smileImmensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

I think how tan a person is, is directly proportionate to how dumb they are.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.