There is nothing humble about this woman.

In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there.

Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.

Because it is my destiny, Zabdas! Because I've always known the gods made me for something more -- more than just a wife, just a mother, just a woman. They made me for power!

Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.

She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Make that: no one I ever wanted to kiss wanted to kiss a fat girl.

Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

A bird in the boughs sang "June," And "June" hummed a bee In a Bacchic glee As he tumbled over and over Drunk with the honey-dew.

I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

Winning is not enough. All others must lose.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on