"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

"You can鈥檛 argue with all of the fools in the world. It鈥檚 easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they鈥檙e not paying attention."

"My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso."

"I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child."

"Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people."

"Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."

"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

"Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons."

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange."

"History is more or less bunk."