Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.

Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it.

Unless you break free from the shackles of beauty as dictated by the media and society, true beauty will be elusive.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

The candy colored coral snake.The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.Décolletage.Beware of conspicuous beauty.Its venom can be deadly.

She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.

Roll in the snow.Shower in the rain.Bask in the sun.Weatherproof your soul.

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Beholdthe azure sea in front of you, the turquoise sky above you, the amber mountain beneath your feet, and the golden daisy in your hands.How are you not the richest person on earth?

Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over, love being the new black, and compassion going viral.

The vortex. You can see the entire galaxy up there. More stars than you ever knew existed.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Too often we want to take stands to elevate us rather than elevate a cause.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

I just want to keep pushing things and growing, and we'll see what happens.

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.

You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.

Who you are is not where you've been... You're still an innocent.