I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

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.

The biggest power play in the world is understanding your own power and then unleashing it to reach your goals and follow your dreams.

I take it we're friends now, " Henry said. "We must be, " Gansey replied. "Jane says it should be so.""It should be so, " Blue agreed.

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.