I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is. This has been normal for me.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Troubles often decides your deepest friends, but deepest friend will never decide to put you into trouble.

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.