God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Min ene sko knirker af mangel på stjerneskud

There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".

Love is a mental madness.

Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

I focus more on the spiritual or psychic gains.

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.