I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

Still when I'm a mess I still put on a vest With an 'S' on my chest Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.

You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.

an incredibly beautiful read

You can not have peace with just feelings. It comes only about by prayer and being on the journey. Like the wise men, find your peace this Christmas.

Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we're the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world's carbon dioxide.

I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

Give me an honest con man any day.

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.