The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?

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.

The true philosopher is a man who says "All right, " and goes to sleep in his armchair.

To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity.

I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.