Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I love big business!

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

There is no education like adversity.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

I think California has the best energy.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Women. They are a complete mystery.