I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

I work with great gladness for what I want.

I just wanna have fun and breathe, but I can’t do either one of them when I suffocate myself with depression.

These were formative years for me, and many of these experiences have had a profound effect on my life.

There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.