Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.

What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

I always knew I'd go to space.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.

I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies and there I was the skinny lanky girl.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

God specializes in giving people a fresh start.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.