When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.

What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

I always knew I'd go to space.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Women know intuitively when they are being devalued. (121)

She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy.

Your attitudes are literally seeds for the growing of your future self.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

But if we expect justice for ourselves, we must support it for others.

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.