It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

The only one I want, the only one I'll ever want, is you.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes: You already are. You always were. And you still have time to be.

Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt more than people realise.

While I am alive, I intend to live.

Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.