Getting older is inevitable--being old is a choice.

Be careful what you tell yourself, and do not belittle yourself, even in jest. Negative, deprecating self-talk can do significant harm to your self-image.

It is through our imperfections that our true beauty shines through.

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice." -Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Sometimes in life there are things to choose.Even if it means the one you love you lose.Sometimes it's a lesson you need to know.That to pass the test the ones you love you let go.

If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has.

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand.

There are no sects in geometry.

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.