I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

It's really important that as women we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

If I can get David Haye , he will sink, one hundred per cent!