I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

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.

Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".

A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

If I'd had covered [ Brett Favre] in Atlanta, I'd presume he'd go down as another Todd Marinovich. Talent out the gills, but lacking the control and discipline to make much of himself.

When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.