Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

I love fitness, yoga. I love fashion. On the weekends, I try to relax. I have pretty crazy weeks. I like spas and nice dinners. I'm not much of a club person. I like to hang on the beach in Malibu.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give.

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

When the mind no longer sees itself as a body, forever in bondage to the body, the mind can be free and at peace even when we are physically sick.

All children are my children.

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?