The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

When you change your story that you tell about yourself, you change your life. You can start telling a better story right now.

May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.

I have to say, early on, to be fair, in the [Barack] Obama administration, the Obama White House said that Fox News was not a true news organization.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

I think I’ll just go take a shower,” I said. It wasn’t until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I’d just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.

Where there is purpose, there is happiness as well.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.