Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.

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.

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.

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.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.