I'm not a party animal I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

William Hazlitt

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

Norman Mailer

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

John Lennon

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

John Selden

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

W. Somerset Maugham

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Omar Bradley

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Anthony Trollope

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.

Kurt Vonnegut

How we respond to grief can shape our present

KC Rhoads

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

Thomas Gray

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

Danielle Steel