"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy."

"We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice."

"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."

"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."

"In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples."

"I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old."

"I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."