Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all. Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable. Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on. The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. I just have to take my chances like any other composer. The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it. Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it. Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point. Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. I am loving being Momma. I really, really am. It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. Leadership is influence. The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements. I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. And freedom is what America means to the world. It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it! I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health. I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff. So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.