Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

I had the '80s hair and braces and a 6-3 frame as a 16-year-old.

There is nothing wrong with my mind.

You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

Speak to yourself with compassion on the inside and you will radiate peace on the outside.

Women feel a need for a certain level of prior training and experience that men do not necessarily demand in order to jump into a new role. There's a need for women to trust themselves more...

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

He laughed. A strained, ha, ha, ha, I may die of this laugh.