"I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating."

“Every team is beatable, you know.”

“The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I can't live in Atlanta. In fact, even if I'm offered, I'm not sure I could come back for another six months, because I'll just be fat.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It's all about perseverance. I just had this attitude … where failure was just not an option.”

“It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.”

“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.”

“All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.”

Source : "Women, Politics, And Power : A Global Perspective" by Melanie M. Hughes, (p. 47), 2007.

“You are the architect of the memories that others will have about you.”

“I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.”

Source : Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.121, Harvard University Press