We're Norwegians. You know, the Vikings. My deadlift was 310 pounds. I mean, I was very, very strong - and I didn't take steroids. I did it all on my own.

I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.

Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.

The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes you stand out of crowd.

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

All anyone really wants is to feel appreciated. So if you want to create real, long-lasting relationships, do that.

Without delayed gratification, there is no persistence.

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

I wasn't somebody who raised his finger and then talked in a hushed voice. I always shouted.

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.