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.

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.

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.

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

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.

One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger

A small town is usually divided by a railroad a main street two churches and a lot of opinions.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.