I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

The practice of understanding, forgiveness, and love is the best practice for a peaceful world.

As men we are all equal in the presence of death.

What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

I don't pretend to be perfect. I want people to see me as I am.

Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.