I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.
Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries. . . they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
In my next life, I plan to be a more respectable creature. For now, this is what is given to us. So I don't know - I think we're all freaks at heart. I think some people strive desperately to be normal, and I think other people strive to be abnormal.
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
I believe my most important job is being there when you need help.
Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.