"When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that."

"To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing."

"Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives."

"I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is."

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

"I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."

"In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come."