Ann Richards
One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.Collection: Mistake
There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.Collection: Texas
You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.Collection: Baseball
Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.Collection: Family
Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.Collection: Feet
I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.Collection: People
A road to a friend's house is never long.Collection: Friendship
If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.Collection: Bills
Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.Collection: Hell
I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.Collection: Government
Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.Collection: Doctors
Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.Collection: Responsibility
One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.Collection: Relationship
We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.Collection: Country
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.Collection: Change Is Good
There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.Collection: Life
July does not a November election make.Collection: July
[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.Collection: Understanding
Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.Collection: Loss