When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.

I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

I firmly believe that deep in their soul everyone has a champion that can overcome obstacles and do great things.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.

I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?