"Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough."

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."

"Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner."

"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy."

"I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous."

"Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush."

"We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care."