Fear is a great motivator.

Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble.

Your level of consciousness defines the beauty of your life and destiny.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

I like to make pies. Thats kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.

Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.