“In my personal life I’m not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man’s world, I’m really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I’m willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.”

Unless you’re willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.

Come hell or water high you’ll never see me cry this is our last good bye.

You know, honey, husbands come and go but I’m still Cher at the end of the day.

Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.

One thing about prejudices — once you break one of them, you’re screwed, because then they all have got to go.

People are negative no matter what you do.

It’s a dirty job being ridiculous, but I’ll do it.

Anyone who’s a great kisser I’m always interested in.

I don’t need a man. But I’m happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don’t fold up and die if I don’t have a man around.

Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.

If it doesn’t matter in five years, it doesn’t matter.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

I’m the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

We must reinforce argument with results.

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you’d have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling–it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.