By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. Use this quote
I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy. Use this quote
Strong women only marry weak men. Use this quote
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. Use this quote
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me. Use this quote
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. Use this quote
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? Use this quote
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong. Use this quote
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Use this quote
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. Use this quote
Beauty is the lover's gift. Use this quote
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice. Use this quote
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. Use this quote
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family. Use this quote
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. Use this quote
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. Use this quote
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter. Use this quote
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. Use this quote
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. Use this quote
Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug! Use this quote