First you have to have a dream.

I know George Burns was a very happy man.

If you really need to, you have to make it happen.

There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof.

You can't be happy, if you're not free and you're not fulfilling yourself.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.

You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.

You know, there's endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

Chiropractic solved my neck and shoulder pains; it put me back on my feet. I think chiropractic is great!

Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.

It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.

My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.

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