Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.

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.

To err is human, but to err on the side of compassion is humane.

I'm about my characters.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right?

A woman's body image is absolutely paramount to her health.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.