The Hamilton family was a bunch of hugging folks

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.

I happen to be a fantastic kisser. Sadly, you will never get to find out.”“Never say never, ” he answers in a singsong voice.“Thanks for that, Justin Bieber. But yeah, not going to happen, dude.

Secrets always come up for air. They're never content to stay buried for long.

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

I've come to appreciate other people's talents.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real.

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.