“I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!”

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

We should always be ready to lend a hand when someone is hurting.

You never know how much you love somebody until they’re gone.

Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are.

God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.

We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.

I probably have a hundred dresses from over the years. I just can’t seem to let go of my favorites!

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

All that glitters ain’t always gold, sometimes it’s pink!

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

The magic is inside you. there ain’t no crystal ball.

It doesn’t matter what your dream is, you can make it happen!

I’m just a backwoods Barbie in a push-up bra and heels. I might look artificial, but where it counts I’m real.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.

What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

Then they begin to see through their language that the problems described there are the same as the problems they are having. They can identify with characters from another language group.