"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."

"Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

"Love and a cough cannot be hid."

"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."

"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."

"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

"People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun."

"We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children."