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.

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.

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.

Don't wait until you are perfect to change the world.

The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Your true freedom is making your own decisions.

Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

To desire a state is to have it.