I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.

I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

I firmly believe that deep in their soul everyone has a champion that can overcome obstacles and do great things.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking you can't buy friendships.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.

Far too few have much too much, and way too many have much too little!

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.

In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.