My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken.

Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.

You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.

Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.

Trusting anyone can get you killed.

As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

It's my job to look presentable but that doesn't mean I have to make a fashion statement everytime I walk out the house.

We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot.

When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.