Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

Okay, so how does this work exactly?" I ask as we walk toward his car. "Do we float down the bayou in rowboat while little critters sing 'Kiss the Girl'.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.

[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

These are the moments for which we live.

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.