"I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education."

"We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem."

"I try to act out of faith."

"Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am."

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

"We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success."

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."