“A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn'...” — Laurel Lea Quote

“A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.”

“Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.”

“A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.”

“I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.”

“Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.”

“I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.”