Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Never exchange the word of God for any wealth.

I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.

I'm not a centerfold.

My horse's jockey was hitting the horse. The horse turns around and says "Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us!"

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.