Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.