Cyndi Lauper

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'