"Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder."

"My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?"

"I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound."

"I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel."

"Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to."

"I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice."

"You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life."

"I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh."

"When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal."

"But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy."

"The industry's memory is quite short, it's true."

"I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"

"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."

"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."

"We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be."

"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."

"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."

"Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him."

"We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us."