Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Boards don't hit back.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

I am not now That which I have been.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Sunlight is painting.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.