"I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words."

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

"If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children."

"After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'"

"We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people."

"I respect the office of the president."

"Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect."

"Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on."